Food Drug Administration

Food Drug Administration: Close video Morning Joe, 9/21/15, 7:12 AM ET Clinton up, Sanders drops in latest poll Hillary Clinton lead has grown in a new national poll, according to numbers from John Heilemann. facebook twitter embed like save share group discuss Clinton has devoted this week of her presidential campaign to health care, and defended the Affordable Care Act while campaigning in Louisiana and Arkansas Monday, according to MSNBC. According to campaign official, Clinton will make a number of proposals favored by consumer advocates. Clinton will roll out a proposal in Iowa Tuesday to lower prescription drugs costs – a plan that is already affecting stock prices of drug companies. Clinton will call for cracking down on pharmaceutical drug ads by denying tax breaks for direct-to-consumer marketing and requiring the Food and Drug Administration to pre-clear the ads for accuracy and clarity. And she’d allow Americans to import cheaper drugs from Canada and other foreign country where the drugs are cheaper. * Hillary Clinton lead narrows: survey* To lower the cost of drugs for the millions of Americans on Medicare, she’d allow the government health care program for seniors to leverage its market share to demand lower prices, an idea she also favored during her 2008 campaign. The aim would be to push companies to invest more in research and development than marketing, especially taxpayer subsidies Clinton would also expand the availability of generics by boosting the FDA capacity to approve the drugs, and she’d decrease the intellectual property protections for expensive biologic drugs so generics could be produced faster. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.