Washington Republicans tucked a huge Christmas present for the drug companies into the appropriations bill in the dead of night. The liability shield can be granted to any product used to prevent or treat an epidemic or a pandemic, and the (administration) gets to decide what that means.
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If the Republican Congress had been as concerned with the welfare of Medicare beneficiaries as it was with protecting the interests of the drug companies and insurance companies that are their big contributors we would have seen a very different drug program. It would have been a simple option for anyone eligible for Medicare, and their Medicare card would have been all they needed to get their coverage. Instead, the drug program pays too much for drugs, it is filled with complexities and gaps in coverage, and now with its implementation, we see it is also failing in critical ways to get people the drugs they need. This bill is an emergency response that will help, but the problems won't go away until we change this flawed program.
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