The Medicare negotiation allowed has still been VERY limited. It should be granted full out by congress, as well as combined for federal employee and VA coverage as well as congress itself... they should all have the same coverage, thus the same incentives. Open/public pricing models would be a good start. As would domestic production and multiple supplier requirements for medications and devices just from a security stand point.
In general the current FTC is better than most in my lifetime, that said, there are plenty of other areas of Govt that are really bad, and even the FTC and SEC could be doing much, much more. It's a mixed bag.
Contrary to a lot of replies, I don't think that another Trump presidency would be particularly worse in these areas as they are pretty populist in nature. Trump isn't a die hard conservative, he's really a populist first.
Agreed it all can and should be better. That doesn't mean "it doesn't matter which administration" etc. There are meaningful differences and the sane thing is to prefer the better option over the worse option, even if neither is particularly perfect or downright evil.
When it comes to improving systems like these, incompetence, hamfistedness, and inaction can be plenty damaging by themselves. "I will roll back ACA and replace it with [crickets for 4+ years]" is a worse alternative.
If course there are differences between different administrations. Unfortunately, the best I can hope for is one that I agree with even 60% of the time.
And even then, some issues are far more important and foundational than others.
In general the current FTC is better than most in my lifetime, that said, there are plenty of other areas of Govt that are really bad, and even the FTC and SEC could be doing much, much more. It's a mixed bag.
Contrary to a lot of replies, I don't think that another Trump presidency would be particularly worse in these areas as they are pretty populist in nature. Trump isn't a die hard conservative, he's really a populist first.