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For the first time, Medicare will negotiate with drug companies to lower prices on life-saving prescriptions. These medications made the list.

Won't big pharma, if they lose the suits, stop the program? won't they just try to find the money elsewhere out of consumers? >> yeah, andrea, that's a possibility. but i think what was brilliant in terms of the way medicare is going to roll this program out is that these ten drugs will soon become 20 drugs and different drugs year after year. even if manufacturers try to do something around, let's say, the ten specific drugs, it is impossible to concede that they could do that for every single drug and on top of that there are pretty stiff penalties if they try some of the games or choose not...

On the one-year anniversary of the IRA’s signing, most of the bill’s impact on drug prices and Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket spending has yet to be determined.

Medicare drug price negotiations are due to start Sept. 1 with the first 10 prescriptions. But some drug companies are asking courts to postpone.

A new report found that 25 of the top brand-name prescription drugs in the Medicare Part D program are skyrocketing in price. See what made the list.