Article snippet: Potential 2020 Democratic presidential contenders are rolling out a slew of plans to lower prescription drug prices, highlighting the importance the issue will hold in the coming campaigns. Just in the past two weeks, Sens. MORE (D-Mass.) have unveiled new drug pricing plans. Democrats see lowering drug prices as a way to harness populist anger at pharmaceutical companies and reclaim an issue that MORE has put in the spotlight. They are also following in the footsteps of Sen. MORE (I-Vt.), who made railing against drug companies a central part of his 2016 presidential bid and has continued to hammer away on the issue. “The greed of the prescription drug industry is literally killing Americans and it has got to stop,” Sanders said last month as he unveiled another bill targeting drug prices. Potential candidates are also unveiling their drug price initiatives as the jockeying ahead of 2020 intensifies. Harris this month joined with Sens. introduce a bill allowing the Department of Health and Human Services to review and reject drug price increases that it deems unreasonable. Warren this month introduced a bill to let the government manufacture certain drugs and sell them at lower prices if there is not enough competition. Booker recently introduced a bill to increase transparency requirements around drug company payments to people with influence over deciding which drugs Medicaid covers. And Sanders last month unveiled a bill to strip monopolies from drug companie... Link to the full article to read more