Pelosi Rx Pricing Bill Saves $500B; Dems Add Slew Of Policies, Benefits

By John Wilkerson / December 5, 2019 at 7:04 PM
Updated Story The Congressional Budget Office estimates that House Democrats’ drug pricing bill would save half a trillion dollars in a decade, according to House Democratic leaders , and Democrats plan to use those savings to pay for additional drug research at the National Institutes of Health, additional Medicare benefits and a hodgepodge of Medicare and Medicaid policies that would lower costs for beneficiaries of those programs. CBO already published a preliminary estimate that the government drug...


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