Cummings, Welch Sponsor Bold Sanders-Khanna Rx Drug Pricing Bill

By Rachel Cohrs / January 9, 2019 at 4:04 PM
Incoming House Oversight & Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Joe Neguse (D-CO) will join original sponsors Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) in supporting a bill that would expand the Trump administration’s international reference pricing concept to span the entire U.S. drug market and would give the government power to invalidate brand-drug makers’ exclusivity if their drug prices are deemed excessively high. The lawmakers will announce the additional co-sponsors...


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