Lower drug costs
Medicare & prescription drugs
El-Sayed supports expanding Medicare drug-price negotiation and ending pharmacy benefit managers that raise costs without providing essential care.
It’s time to eliminate the Pharmacy Benefit Manager industry.
WHAT HE HAS SAID
- Supports empowering Medicare to negotiate prices for every prescription drug, and earlier after drugs hit the market.
- Wants those negotiated prices extended to all patients, not only people on Medicare.
- Supports public manufacturing of essential medicines such as insulin.
- Supports ending excessive drug-patent tactics that let Big Pharma prolong monopolies.
- Would work to ban the drug middlemen, called pharmacy benefit managers, that mark up your prescriptions without adding anything to your care.
Primary sources
- Read the campaign position — Abdul for U.S. Senate
Last reviewed 2026-08-19.