Catherine Cortez Masto
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170 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
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Yes.
Yeah.
The Inflation Reduction Act empowered Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.
It penalizes drug companies for price hikes above inflation, and it caps seniors out of pocket drug costs, along with reducing insulin prices to $35 per month.
But your future boss, Donald Trump.
On his first day in office revoked President Biden's executive order that actually directed the health secretary to examine ways to reduce drug prices and improve access to innovative therapies for the American people.
And unfortunately, Republicans in Congress want to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.
Which means reversing all of those things that we worked on to lower prices for Americans.
So my question to you is What do you do?
Why are you there?
Are you there to be a rubber stamp?
To this administration and cave into all of these positions that they're taking, even though you know They're in disagreement with your positions on lowering drug prices and that they could harm Americans.
How do you handle that as HHS director?
So let me ask you this, because I only have so much time.
So we've already negotiated lowering prices for 10 drugs with Big Pharma and Big Pharma, by the way, opposes this.
They have not only are asking for a pause, they have filed lawsuits, but we've already negotiated the first 10 drugs.
And we want to expand it to the next 10 to 15 that the Biden administration has put forward.
Would you agree and continue that path of really mandating that big pharma come to the table and negotiate drug prices for Medicare so we can lower those prices for Americans?
Well, let me ask you this, then, because you keep citing the Trump administration and you're just going to follow what they say.
Is that what you're doing?
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