STAT+: The four senators who could make or break Democrats’ drug pricing ambitions

WASHINGTON — The fate of the Democratic party’s ambitious goal of allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices rests with a handful of key moderate senators.

Negotiations on the exact scope of the reforms heated up this week after months of stalemate. But as lawmakers push to compile an outline of the massive domestic spending package that forms a cornerstone of President Biden’s domestic agenda, solid consensus on drug pricing policies has proved elusive.

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