Why are some members in congress arguing over the Democratic plan to lower prescription drug prices.?

Question

I have noticed that members of congress want to keep the Medicaid program paying the same amount to phamacutical comapnies. They state it might actually raise prices, show me the proof. The VA (Veterans Affairs) bargains with drug companies and has a SUBSTANTIALY lower drug cost then Medicaid, so why not negotiate drug prices?

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azUfcZzDc6yw&refer=home

Answer 1

Maybe these few members of Congress own stock in that particular company.. It's all about special interest and screw the consumer.

Answer 2

Critical issue of skyrocketing prescription drug prices and whether Congress will lift the legislative prohibition that prevents Medicare from bargaining with the drug companies to secure lower prices. Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, had promised to revisit this issue in early January—within the first 100 hours of the new Congress.
What did she do about this issue in those 100 hours?
I missed hear about it.

Answer 3

It's just another screw up by government getting mixed up in things that should have bee left to the private side. You want to read some truisms about government? Check these out!

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a
bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.
-.George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt
to his fellow man .which debt he proposes to
pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two
wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of
money from poor people in rich countries to rich
people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton
at Georgetown Univ

Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves,
tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as
much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal
sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing
of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly native American criminal
class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything
you want, is strong enough to take everything you
have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Answer 4

Congress is simply wrong on everything regarding drug costs.Both parties have failed this issue.Both idealogies are corrupt so it doesn't surprise me that there's argument.Democrats plan to increase Medicaid and tax dollars,Republicans want the escalation of drug prices to remain.Yet both parties don't want us to shop international.Simply put:either slave to government or drug companies....take your pick

Answer 5

One might note that it cost less than 2.00 to make a 30 days supply of any drug

Answer 6

Dr Benjamin Zycher of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research on exactly this subject.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGJiMWUzZWFkY2I4MmM0MjAyNWIyOGQ4N2VhYWZhZWI=

Answer 7

Pssst its called the drug lobbys. See the giant big corporations give millions of dollars to candidates. Then the cadidates become the b*i*t*c*h*e*s of the giant big corporations. See the republicans are already in bed. The democrats are in bed to but they want to pretend they are not.

Follow the money.

Answer 8

They're just trying to make themselves look good to the voters.....they are still getting paid off by the big drug 'cartels'......

Answer 9

1) Because the pharmaceutical companies pay better than you do, and
2) It's every American's responsibilty to fight against anything the Democrats want to do, tooth and nail.

Answer 10

Someone has to pay the cost. So if you lower in one area, you raise it in another.