US Price Negotiation Process: Is Case-By-Case Politically Sustainable?

A recent letter from two key Republican members of Congress to the US Department of Health & Human Services asking for details about the planned implementation of the newly enacted Medicare price negotiation process raises a number of specific and important questions about exactly how the program is supposed to work.

It is also undeniably a blueprint for how the GOP plans to hold the government’s feet to the fire during the implementation process, assuming they can recapture the majority in...