House Clears Decks On Minor Pricing Legislation As Big Policies Privately Negotiated

By John Wilkerson / May 20, 2019 at 12:45 PM
The House Energy & Commerce Committee this week continues to clear the decks on drug-pricing legislation that is easiest to attain while two factions -- the House speaker and the White House on one side, and Senate Finance Democrats and Republicans on the other -- work separately on larger, more politically divisive reforms. Meanwhile, the administration last week backed down from its plan to use protected drug classes as a tool to control prices, and that move is in turn...


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