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Heavenly Father, expose the evils of binding arbitration that would bring bondage upon the American population.
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Washington lawmakers believe they’ve found a bipartisan solution to lowering the cost of prescription drugs. A proposal called “binding arbitration” is being promoted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top advisers, who reportedly believe the Trump administration will be on board.

Let’s hope the measure doesn’t gain steam. Binding arbitration — essentially government price controls — would be catastrophic for patients. It would undercut medical innovation and bar American patients from accessing innovative treatments.

Binding arbitration was first floated by leftist health policy experts in 2008. More recently, a handful of congressional Democrats, and even the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), have voiced support for the scheme.

Binding arbitration would impact drug pricing negotiations between manufacturers and government-sponsored insurance plans, like Medicare. Currently, these parties work directly to settle price points for prescription medications.

But sometimes the government and drug makers don’t agree on a price tag. And should these two parties reach an impasse, government officials could trigger the arbitration process….

Just as problematic, however, is that arbitration is really just a front for government price controls. The government has the power to appoint arbitrators without any input from drug companies. This means officials would almost certainly choose policy wonks who already agree with their drug pricing philosophies.

Put differently, the government always comes out on top. And instead of capping drug prices directly, the government merely appoints someone else to do their bidding…. (Read more Click Here.) (Excerpts from Peter Pitts article in The Washington Times.)

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Verna
May 5, 2019

Lord Jesus, we know from your Word all authority is from you. We are admonished to pray for those in authority. Today I pray that you bind those, both in the physical realm and the spiritual realm, who desire to make laws detrimental to the America and her citizens. I ask you to cause this nation to return to you on our knees in repentance, that by your almighty hand, Your will will be done here and Satan will be defeated by the blood Jesus Christ shed on the cross. Amen

Alan K Veasey
May 5, 2019

Socialism is the answer if the question is: do we want poverty, misery
and tyranny. If our health is the government’s property then so are we.

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