Public Citizen Pans 'Cures' Draft, Offers 5 Alternatives To Revamp Bill

As House lawmakers and their staff work to negotiate final details of a second version of the Energy and Commerce Committee's 21st Century Cures legislation, Public Citizen says the January Cures discussion draft misses the mark and offers five ways to improve the measure by incorporating ideas the group says have been ignored by Congress. Public Citizen pans the Cures draft as “little more than a grab bag of unseemly giveaways to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.” Rather than...

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