Schumer backs Sanders push on drug prices, lowering Medicare age [View all]
Source: The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an interview published Friday that he supports measures to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, as well as lowering the Medicare eligibility age and creating a public health insurance option.
The comments from Schumer give important backing to a push from progressives, who have been calling for a range of major health reforms from President Biden, including in his next major economic package, which he laid out for Congress during a joint address on Wednesday night.
Schumer specifically pointed to conversations he has had with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
"Bernie Sanders and I agree on this," Schumer told The.Ink. "I believe we should be negotiating - we just talked about this at some length; he and I must talk almost every single day - Medicare negotiating with the drug companies and using that money to expand Medicare."
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