Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed a traditionally Democratic policy Monday, calling for Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, according to The Hill.
He told a crowd in Farmington, N.H., the main roadblock to this policy, despite that it could save billions, is the pharmaceutical companies, according to the report. The policy was banned in 2003 as part of the Medicare prescription drug law, according to the report. Frontrunner Democrats Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) have also backed this idea.
According to The Hill, the policy has "little hope in Congress," as Republicans focus primarily on just a few companies with dramatically high drug prices.
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