Making Medicare Drugs Affordable - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism

Sep 6, 2023

The cost of prescription drugs has long been out of control in the United States, with the federal government to negotiate down sticker prices. Now, thanks to a (IRA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have begun negotiating lower drug prices. But pharmaceutical companies are already , with numerous , placements of , and support from .

Merith Basey, executive director of spoke with YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on Rising Up With Sonali about the IRA鈥檚 impact on drug prices and how spurious the arguments against price controls are.

The views expressed here and on Rising Up With Sonali do not necessarily reflect the opinion of YES! 无码视频.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 无码视频 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.