See, Congress was creating Medicare Part D, a program meant to help seniors afford prescriptions. But drug companies moved quickly to protect their profits. The industry mobilized an army of lobbyists to secure a key provision in the bill that prevented the federal government from using Medicare's bargaining power to negotiate lower prices. Other wealthy countries, they negotiate to get a better deal for their citizens. Our Congress banned that, and the result was predictable. American seniors ended up paying more than patients almost anywhere else. (02:19–02:32)
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Asserts that lobbyists influenced a provision preventing Medicare from negotiating drug prices.
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