Pharmacist Hank Wedemeyer fills prescriptions as generic diabetes medicine awaits distribution at a community health center for low-income patients on December 1, 2009 in Aurora, Colorado.

Hillary Clinton Wants a Price Check on Drugs

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton has unveiled a plan aimed at pharmaceutical companies and sky-rocketing drug prices. Most notably, she wants to allow the government to negotiate lower prices for prescription medications - a move that would overturn a Bush-era provision that limited governmental cost-cutting.

Carolyn Johnson, a healthcare reporter for The Washington Post, and Patrick Healy, New York Times political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential campaign, delve into the details of Clinton's drug manifesto. Plus, we'll collectively shake our fists at the overnight cost bump of a drug from Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shrekli (although he agreed to lower the price again on Tuesday).

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Posted by Brian Lehrer on Tuesday, 22 September 2015

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