A national RX: Give the feds the power to reduce prices for prescription drugs

We spend roughly $1.5 trillion on health care and costs are shooting up again. Per capita we spend about double what other democracies spend and they provide universal health care to boot.  Tens of millions of Americans go without good health care because we can’t control health care costs

But as someone who toiled in the health care reform vineyards for many years I sense the public has become deeply pessimistic that health care reform will ever happen.

We need to prove this pessimism wrong but going for broke is not the way to do it.  We first need a big success in changing one critical part of the whole system showing the public it can be done. Then health care reform will be hard to stop.

I have a modest reform proposal to do just that.