In response to Retired Teachers Chapter Leader Tom Murphy’s column about the Inflation Reduction Act giving Medicare the authority to bargain on prescription drug prices [Nov. 2]:

This legislation encourages a continuation of financing Big Pharma and society-numbing reliance on prescription drugs.

I notice that President Biden does not sign on for no-cost health care, alternative holistic practices and drug-free recovery interventions. Any of these forward-thinking, restorative, daring and anti-establishment initiatives would be deserving of FDR and LBJ’s institution-shaking social programs.

Reducing the profit margins of Big Pharma is hardly revolutionary.

Dale Benjamin Drakeford, retired