“I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.”

American journalist and author

Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. He has also worked as labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor at The New Republic, and a senior writer at Slate. At The New Republic, he wrote the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and at Slate he wrote the "Chatterbox" column for a decade. In 2012, he published The Great Divergence, a book about income inequality in the United States.