Senate Democrats and the Biden administration dropped plans to set drug price caps based on the amount paid in other high-income countries, during talks years ago to push through the law that empowered Medicare to negotiate down the cost of prescription medications.

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"There are many good reasons why we should pay more for earlier access to new medications than our trading partners," wrote Darius Lakdawalla and Dana Goldman of the University of Southern California...