Government Defends Drug Price Negotiation Law As Voluntary

(December 11, 2023, 11:47 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Construing a law allowing for negotiation of drug prices in the Medicare program as anything other than voluntary given the clear ability to exit the program would “radically rework” how government spending operates and upset existing programs already blessed by the courts, defendants told a federal judge in the District of Columbia in opposing summary judgment....