This guy’s shenanigans appear to go beyond sucking up to the insurance industry and promising that there will be no serious movement on Medicare for All. He’s also trying to de-fang any legislation aimed at giving Medicare Part D the power to negotiate prescription drug pricing:
tl;dr: He wants a third-party that would be granted the power to negotiate non-binding, voluntary pricing on a select number of high-priced drugs, instead of binding prices on all drugs, negotiated directly by the government.
Since I strongly doubt that Pelosi has so little control over her staffers and aides that they could be wandering around Capitol Hill pushing for this stuff without her knowledge and/or consent, I have to assume that the woman who has total control over what sort of legislation gets to the floor of the House is totally okay with once again starting on 4th down with the football in their own red zone when they go to the negotiating table.
[incoherent screaming]
