LA backs Newsom's plan on prescription medicine
by Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times
Apr 18, 2019
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom's ambitious plan to rein in prescription drug costs through a statewide purchasing system - pooling the power of California's largest public and private buyers - has a new ally: Los Angeles County.
In a tentative deal announced Wednesday, the Newsom administration and Los Angeles County said they would sit at the same bargaining table when negotiating prescription drug prices with manufacturers. Newsom said the partnership will hopefully spur other local governments to join the coalition, adding that governors in
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