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Democrats must find narrow path to curb high medicine prices

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| May 3, 2021 10:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they've been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration.

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