HGA’s President and CEO, Joel White, spoke with The New York Times about Democrats’ legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate prices directly with drug makers.
Joel White, a Republican health policy consultant who helped write the 2003 law that created Medicare Part D, said the program was designed for private insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and companies that already negotiate rebates for Medicare plan sponsors to use their leverage to drive down prices.
“The whole model was designed to promote private competition,” he said.