Senate Hearing Next Week on Outrageous Prescription Drug Prices

by Admin | December 5, 2017 12:35 pm

December 5, 2017—The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is [1]holding a Dec. 12 hearing on new National Academies of Sciences (NAS) findings on why medicines cost so much and recommendations on how to fix the problem.

The NAS’s Nov. 30 report[2] is drawing attention for calling on the federal government to negotiate drugs prices with manufacturers, deny tax deductions for drug advertising, do a better job of assessing drugs’ value to society, and make sure incentives to develop orphan drugs don’t go to widely sold drugs.  

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