E&C Passes Revised CREATES, Pay-For-Delay Bills After Striking Bipartisan Deal

By John Wilkerson / April 3, 2019 at 8:58 PM
The House Energy & Commerce Committee voted unanimously Wednesday (April 3) for six bills to cut drug prices after Democrats agreed to changes sought by Republicans to CREATES and pay-for-delay bills. Democrats eliminated a measure that would have made past drug patent settlements illegal, agreed to GOP-backed changes to the CREATES bill that strengthen brand-drug makers’ defense against lawsuits, and scrapped language in a third bill that would have removed patents for drug-delivery devices from the Orange Book. “I am...


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