Reply #30: Did you read or see Nelson fight for an amendment that would

[karynnj]

have cost Pharma about $86 billion? He was very good and made a great case for allowing the dual Medicare/Medicaid people to get the lower Medicaid drug price. It was defeated narrowly in the conservative Finance committee (with Baucus, Menendez and Carper voting with the Republicans and I think Snowe voting with us). He is speaking of trying again on the Senate floor. Here, he was considering the elderly poor who are his constituents.

(I was as shocked as anyone that it was Nelson fighting for this.)