Pelosi Bill Makes COVID-19 Drugs Free To Insured Without Price Controls

By John Wilkerson / May 12, 2020 at 8:18 PM

House Democrats’ latest pandemic response bill would make COVID-19 drugs and vaccines free for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and the privately insured, but it would do nothing to curb drug prices, and that omission bothers progressive Democrats and consumer and patient lobbyists.


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