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Lower prescription prices to take time in new law

Drug makers may push back on savings provisions

By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press
Published: August 27, 2022, 9:17pm
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FILE - President Joe Biden signs the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 16, 2022, as from left, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., watch. After decades of failed attempts, Democrats passed legislation that aims to reign in the soaring costs of drugs for some Americans.
FILE - President Joe Biden signs the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 16, 2022, as from left, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., watch. After decades of failed attempts, Democrats passed legislation that aims to reign in the soaring costs of drugs for some Americans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Photo Gallery

WASHINGTON — After decades of failed attempts, Democrats passed legislation that aims to rein in the soaring costs of drugs for some in the United States.

It will take years for people to realize some of the most significant savings promised in the climate and health care bill that President Joe Biden signed this month.

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