What Went Down On Night One Of The First Democratic Debates

Klobuchar has made lowering drug costs a big priority. And even though it might seem like kind of a boring topic, it is one of the issues voters prioritize when it comes to health care.

“I’m with Bernie on Medicare-for-all,” Warren says. That is important. That may be the most important moment of the debate so far — and my guess is it might be the biggest one.

Eighty-six percent of Americans favor allowing the federal government to directly negotiate lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for people on Medicare, while 13 percent are opposed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from February.