single republican vote, and signed into law by president biden. one of its key provisions was talking about the federal government for the first time in history to negotiate the prices of a number of drugs covered by medicare. directly with the big pharmaceutical companies, and thereby bring down the prices of those drugs for the ordinary americans. on tuesday, the biden administration will finally reveal the first ten prescription drugs selected from medicare price negotiation. we are expecting that list to include some pretty expensive drugs commonly used to treat cancer, arthritis, diabetes. george they currently cost millions of seniors tens of thousands of dollars. the congressional budget office says that medicare portion get a price of drugs in the direct negotiation with big pharma could save the taxpayer almost 100 billion dollars over the next decade. it's hard to overstate just what a. b. fd this is, to borrow a line from president biden. it's a huge deal. in fact, it's something that democrats have tried and failed to do for the past 30 years. bill clinton tried back in 1983 when he was trying to overhaul the health care system. he could not do it. barack obama wanted to do it to, but the affordable care act