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"The House approved legislation Friday requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies over the price of medicines for Medicare participants. …The vote was 255-170, mostly along party lines. The idea behind the bill is using the sheer size of the Medicare program to generate steeper discounts than private insurance plans can muster. …'If this bill is presented to the president, he will veto it,' [White House press secretary Tony Snow] said Friday."

Worst. President. Ever.

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