Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 30
Let Medicare negotiate drug prices
Never delivered“When it comes time to negotiate the cost of drugs, we are going to negotiate like crazy.”
- Promised
- , Campaign rally, New Hampshire; repeated at January 11, 2017 press conference
- Re-promised
- 15 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
No law allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices was enacted during the term. The administration dropped a proposed rule on drug rebates in 2019 and did not back House-passed legislation (H.R. 3) in 2019 that would have created negotiating authority. Medicare negotiation was authorized later, in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.