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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026

Biden's solution? "Build Back Better," allowing the feds to negotiate *up to* 10 drug prices (possibly *zero* drug prices), *but* the new prices only kick in *after* the 2024 election, so no one sees the benefit of this in time for the next general election: pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/b... 18/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026

This is a solution that pleases *no one* - and that's the point. Biden and his team viewed the presidency as an institution for making sure everyone was equally unhappy, a philosophy that Anat Shenker-Osorio calls "pizzaburger politics." 19/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026

This is named for a thought-experiment in which half your family wants pizza and the other half wants burgers, so you serve them "pizzaburgers" and make everyone miserable and declare yourself to have the fair-handed wisdom of Solomon. 20/

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