Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
‘It shows how much pharma has on their plate’: Congress just quietly passed a bill that will cost drug makers $3 billion.
4 October 2019 - It’s on the lips of every presidential candidate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and even President Trump: It’s time to lower drug prices.
And yet when Congress passed a drug pricing bill last week that will save the government $3 billion — the first it’s passed in nearly a year — no one really noticed.
You can’t blame them: There was no press conference from the bill sponsors, no snarky reaction from the drug industry, virtually no press release from any of the advocacy organisations that champ at the bit to weigh in on every twist and turn of the ongoing drug pricing debate in Washington.
