President Bush Supports Price Negotiations
By www.menhealthonline.biz
A recent article on Merrill Goozner’s blog GoozNewz points out that President Bush recently endorsed drug price negotiations. Many have thought the president to be staunchly opposed to letting Medicare negotiate its drug prices with prescription drug manufacturers.
In the president’s recent budget, he said:
"Allow Optional Managed Formulary: Allows States to use private sector management techniques to leverage greater discounts through negotiations with drug manufacturers.”
The president has been bombarded by critics that say his lack of support for drug price negotiations hurts the poor and working class citizens, while strengthening the large drug manufactures grip on the middle class Americans pocketbook.
Despite popular belief that the President is against drug price negotiations he made a recent press release that said, “What’s good enough for states should be good enough for the federal government – and for the millions of seniors and people with
