Pelosi Does Not Insist That Drug Pricing Be Part Of Infrastructure Bill

By John Wilkerson / April 29, 2021 at 3:37 PM
Neither House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) nor Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) insist that legislation to control drug prices be part of the infrastructure package, which hurts the prospects of Congress passing drug pricing reforms, lobbyists for and against those reforms say. In his speech Wednesday (April 28) to Congress, Biden talked forcefully about lowering drug prices , but he excluded it from his infrastructure plan and left it to Congress to figure out. Pelosi pushed hard to...


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