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No Bargaining over Drug Prices, Fed Official Insists

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The nation's top health official said yesterday that the government should not negotiate Medicare drug prices, a position that sets the stage for an early confrontation with the incoming Democratic Congress. (Washington Post [1], Tuesday)

It's an argument over how to run the government program.

FEE Timely Classic
Who Will Control Medical Care? [2] by Jane M. Orient


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[1] Washington Post: http://www.fee.org http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301356.html

[2] Who Will Control Medical Care?: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=1298

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