joining us is lynn gardner a policy reporter for politico. welcome. thank you for being here today and here's your headline. we are going to put up on the screen. medicare has lower prices for 10 drugs so let's talk about that. who will be impacted by these negotiations? >> the biden administration is saying that everyone on medicare will be impacted by this. when they made the announcement thursday they expect the initial round of negotiations will give $6 billion to the medicare program and $1.5 billion in savings will be realized by anyone on medicare with prescription drug coverage and that would be just because the expectation that if medicare prescription drug plans are saving money on these drugs they will pass some of those savings on to beneficiaries. >> at 10 drugs. what types of medications were included and whyic did they selt those 10 medications quick this first 10 drugs had to be selected because they are among theg drugs that medicare pays e most money for. there are lots of other factors that came into play here and we are expecting t