Cummings: Drug Pricing Bills Won't Move This Year

September 22, 2016 at 6:03 PM
Legislation addressing drug pricing is likely going to have to wait until the next session of Congress, according to House oversight committee ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings (MD), following a multi-hour hearing where lawmakers grilled Mylan CEO Heather Bresch on the cost of EpiPens. “I think it's going to be hard to get anything done. I think it would have to be pushed into the next session,” Cummings told Inside Health Policy . “I try to be optimistic, but I think...


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