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House Education and Labor Committee to Hold Hearing to Discuss
Drug Pricing Bill
On May 5, the House Education and Labor Committee s
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will hold a
hearing to discuss the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act
(H.R. 3). The bill, which was first introduced
in 2019, would allow the federal government to negotiate the cost
of prescription drugs and cap seniors out-of-pocket costs for
Prescription drugs: Lower prices, more cures
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Morgan Griffith
Prescription drug prices burden the budgets of many. It is a problem that demands the attention of health care policymakers, but it must be solved correctly.
Unfortunately, House Democrats are charging ahead with a bill that is unconstitutional and would create many more problems than it solves.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan drug pricing plan is H.R. 3. It was previously passed by the House of Representatives in 2019. At the time, I objected to its constitutionality, among other problems with the bill. The Democrat majority could have used its time since then to fix the bill, but it has chosen not to.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers grappled with the issue of high drug costs at a subcommittee hearing of the House Committee on Education and Labor on Wednesday.
President Biden gave a boost to Democrats by broadcasting his support for price negotiation in his first address to a joint session of congress in late April. We all know how outrageously expensive drugs are in America, he said. Let s give Medicare the power to save hundreds of billions of dollars.
Everyone at the hearing agreed that lowering costs of prescription drugs is important what they couldn t agree on is how to do it.
AARP Supports House Majority s Prescription Drug Bill
Measure would cap out-of-pocket costs and order Medicare to negotiate some drug prices
by Dena Bunis, AARP, May 7, 2021 |
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En español | AARP is urging Congress to pass a prescription drug measure that would cap out-of-pocket Medicare medication costs and require the program to negotiate for lower prices on some high-cost medicines. HR 3 would crack down on drug companies that price gouge older Americans with relentless price increases, forcing them to choose between taking their medicine and paying their bills,” Nancy LeaMond, AARP executive vice president and chief advocacy and engagement officer, says in a letter sent Friday to the chairs of three powerful U.S. House of Representatives committees. The letter urges passage of the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (HR 3), which passed the House in 2019 but was never voted on by the U.S. Senate.
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House Democrats are under attack for supporting Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “socialist prescription drug takeover” in a new television advertising campaign run by a Republican group.
American Action Network, a political nonprofit group affiliated with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, is spending more than $4 million to run ads in a dozen districts held by incumbent Democrats. The spot dings the Democrats for H.R. 3, dubbed the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, claiming the bill would stifle the ability the research and development of new, life-saving prescription drugs by imposing federal limits on what pharmaceutical companies can charge for medication.