Biden-Sanders ‘Unity Platform’: Moderate On Coverage, Extreme On Drug Pricing

The US Democratic Party will not be rallying around ‘Medicare for All’ in November. But the absence of a push for a single payer system is about the only good news for drug companies in the ‘unity platform’ released by presumptive Presidential nominee Joe Biden and his defeated rival Bernie Sanders.

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The Democratic Presidential campaign will not be a referendum on “Medicare for All.”

That seemed clear enough when former Vice President Joe Biden took command of the primary race this spring, and it is now cemented with the release of a “unity platform”...

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