Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2024
In a showy hearing, Bernie Sanders gets few answers about lower drug prices
8 February 2024 - Call it Senator Bernie Sanders’ prescription drug pricing theater.
The hearing, featuring Merck CEO Robert Davis, Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato, and Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Chris Boerner, was designed to draw public interest, and in that respect, it worked. The wood-paneled hearing room in a Senate office building was standing room only, with an overflow room prepared. Photographers flocked for photos as Sanders shook hands with each executive, standard practice before such hearings begin.
