Consumer Confidential: Obama’s Budget Plan Would Allow Greater Scrutiny Of High Drug Prices

By David Lazarus Los Angeles Times - Feb 21, 2016

Buried deep within President Obama’s $4 trillion budget plan are a couple of health care proposals that could change everything for U.S. consumers. The fact that the drug industry wasted no time in dismissing the ideas — and that their Republican friends in Congress said they wouldn’t even look at them — should tell you something big was afoot. The Department of Health and Human Services broke out Obama’s health care proposals in a...