Bernie Sanders demanded on the Senate floor that the chamber immediately take up debate on his new bill to lower prescription drug prices – but the effort was blocked by a Republican who has received nearly $300,000 from the pharmaceutical industry.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded on the Senate floor that the chamber immediately take up debate on his and Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s new bill to lower prescription drug prices – but the effort was blocked by a pharmaceutical industry-backed Republican senator.
Sanders and Klobuchar asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to debate and vote on the Cutting Medicare Prescription Drug Prices in Half Act, which wouldto access the same low drug prices that are enjoyed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This would save some Medicare recipients hundreds or thousands of dollars monthly, depending on their medical needs. According tofrom 2020, Veterans Affairs’s prices are 49 percent lower for name brand drugs and 68 percent lower for generic drugs.
“For decades, literally decades – 20, 30, 40 years – members of both political parties have come to the floor of the Senate, come to the floor of the House, and they have bemoaned the high cost of prescription drugs in this country,” in an impassioned speech on the House floor. “For decades now, members of Congress have been talking about lowering the cost of prescription drugs. And for decades they have failed to deliver. Talk, talk, talk. Nothing happens.”
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