YOUR VIEW: Negotiated drug prices will not improve Medicare (The Standard-Times)
Recently, some members of Congress have called for the federal government to negotiate and set prices for prescription drugs available to seniors under Medicare Part D. Their common claim is that this will cut costs. This claim is false.

Medicare Drug Plan Overhaul Stalls In Senate (The Morning News)
WASHINGTON -- A Senate setback on a bill to require the government to negotiate Medicare Part D drug costs with pharmaceutical companies failed to stop Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and others Wednesday from trumpeting the proposal.