Buttigieg Proposes Breaking Drug Patents When Price Negotiations Fail

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released Monday (Oct. 7) a plan to lower drug prices that resembles government price negotiation legislation orchestrated by House Speak Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and the South Bend, IN, mayor included a measure that liberals back to let the government break patents . However, Buttigieg does not call for foreign reference pricing, which is a key component of many other Democratic proposals, and he ties the plan to his recently proposed “Medicare for All who want...