According to CQ Today, a Senate vote is expected Wednesday to try to break a planned filibuster against a bill empowering Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices. And Senate leaders are hunting \”for a final few votes\” to get to the needed 60.
Meanwhile, Bob Geiger flags this PoliticsTV interview of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who sounds like he\’s itching for a fight:
We’re going to do something the Republicans hate, and that is allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower price prescription drugs.
They hate it because they are owned by the Pharmaceutical industry.
The the most well-paid lobbyists, who walk around in their Gucci shoes and are driven up to Capitol Hill in their limousines, chauffeur-driven limousines, are preventing us from moving to have Medicare be able to negotiate for lower price drugs.\”
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