House Dems Package Bipartisan Drug-Price Bills With Partisan ACA Bills

By Rachel Cohrs Ariel Cohen / May 8, 2019 at 5:02 PM
The House will vote next week on legislation that combines key drug-pricing and Affordable Care Act bills, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Wednesday (May 8). H.R. 987 contains seven bills, packaging popular, bipartisan drug-pricing policies with partisan measures designed to shore up the Affordable Care Act’s markets. “I hope Republicans join with us to strengthen health care and lower prescription drug costs instead of continuing their efforts to sabotage our health care system,” Hoyer said in a statement...

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