Comments on: EXECUTIVE ORDER GIVES MORE AUTHORITY TO AN ALREADY-POWER-DRUNK FDA http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/11/01/executive-order-gives-more-authority-to-the-already-power-drunk-fda/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Mon, 21 May 2012 18:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Galen of Old http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/11/01/executive-order-gives-more-authority-to-the-already-power-drunk-fda/#comment-464834 Galen of Old Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:45:12 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/11/01/executive-order-gives-more-authority-to-the-already-power-drunk-fda/#comment-464834 Wait a minute.... I thought that the gov't/congress expressly <b>forbid</b> the FDA/VA/DHS/Medicare/Medicaid from negotiating *any* discounts with big pharma; instead requiring Uncle Sam to pay full retail. Yet, your story claims Uncle is now *low-balling* Big Pharma and driving them into bankruptcy.... I must have missed the memo....please connect the dots. When did this "federal 340B drug rebate program" kick in? Did it override the prohibition of Uncle negotiating prices???? Don't we want Uncle getting the lowest possible price for medicine, just like the insurance companies? Wait a minute….

I thought that the gov’t/congress expressly forbid the FDA/VA/DHS/Medicare/Medicaid from negotiating *any* discounts with big pharma; instead requiring Uncle Sam to pay full retail.

Yet, your story claims Uncle is now *low-balling* Big Pharma and driving them into bankruptcy….

I must have missed the memo….please connect the dots. When did this “federal 340B drug rebate program” kick in? Did it override the prohibition of Uncle negotiating prices???? Don’t we want Uncle getting the lowest possible price for medicine, just like the insurance companies?

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