On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton recently told a crowd recently at the California State University Northridge campus that she wants to “give Medicare the opportunity to bargain to get cheaper drug prices.”
The New York Democrat added, “We pay for clinical trials ... and then we end up paying the highest cost in the world because other countries drive a better bargain.”
Her rhetoric echoed similar attacks by her Democratic rival Barak Obama.
Republican John McCain, in a debate on Jan. 5, asked, “Why shouldn't we be able to reimport drugs from Canada?” answering himself, “It's because of the power of the pharmaceutical companies.”
When former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney urged him not to cast the drug makers as the “big bad guys,” Sen. McCain countered, “Well, they are.”
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