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Sally Pipes: Democrats Abandon US Patients to Rescue Drug-Pricing Reform

Just a few days ago, it appeared that Democrats had given up on including prescription drug pricing reforms in their massive spending bill. But not anymore. In an eleventh-hour turn of events, congressional Democrats this week resurrected their long-standing desire to levy government price controls on prescription drugs. If lawmakers successfully deploy their latest price-control gambit, then patients today and in the future will miss out on state-of-the-art treatments that will never be invented. According to early reports,…

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Kent Kaiser: Congress: Drive a Stake Through the Heart of Socialist Drug Price Controls

The Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3) and similar proposals keep rearing their heads in Congress with the purported aim of lowering prescription drug prices and improving Medicare. The problem is, such proposals are shortsighted and ultimately lead to lower quality, fewer options, and diminished health outcomes. H.R. 3, which has been around for years and like a vampire just won’t seem to die, would cap prescription drug prices at no more than 120 percent of…

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Jon Decker: The AARP wants price controls, but do they have the interests of seniors at heart?

As evidenced by AARP State Director Sam Wilson’s recent Kenosha News op-ed, AARP Wisconsin has been pushing hard for a bevy of new, federal healthcare regulations. These changes, supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, would fundamentally reshape America’s Medicare system, imposing draconian, nationwide price controls over the cost of prescription drugs. Why, then, is the AARP supportive of such a radical policy? For that answer, simply follow the money. It may surprise many to learn…

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Erik Paulsen: Why Democrats Must Drop Drug Price Controls

The future of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill could come down to an intra-party showdown on a single issue: drug pricing. On September 15, the House Energy & Commerce Committee, deferring to moderate Democrats, rejected a plan to let the government interfere in the price of drugs purchased through Medicare. Later that day, in an exercise of progressive political muscle, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a nearly identical measure.Some on the progressive…

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Chris Jacobs: How AARP Puts Profits over Patients—And Principles

Why would an organization that claims to represent seniors support legislation that discriminates against the most vulnerable and raids Medicare to pay for unrelated left-wing spending priorities? When it comes to AARP, it’s all about the money—its own money. As a report I recently wrote for American Commitment demonstrates, AARP has become an organization that compromises its own purported principles to take advantage of its members for its own bottom line. The tax-exempt AARP doesn’t get most…

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Grace-Marie Turner: Democrats’ Drug Price Controls Threaten Biotech Research, Patients

There are too many dreadful provisions in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending monstrosity to count, but one is rising to the surface as especially destructive. That would be its prescription drug price-control schemes. A study by University of Chicago economist Tomas Philipson and analyst Troy Durie concludes that the Congressional Budget Office is wrong by more than an order of magnitude in its estimates of how many new and better drugs would be lost if this legislation were to be enacted.…

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Sanul Anuzis: Don’t pass a law that would halt research into new cures

Democratic lawmakers are playing a dangerous game with the lives of seniors as they pursue drug pricing schemes that would put dozens of future medicines out of reach. A new study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has found that setting price controls on drugs, as legislators are trying to do in their budget reconciliation bill, could dramatically reduce the number of new medications developed, approved, and brought to market. As it happens, the CBO…

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American Commitment Releases Updated Report Urging Congress to Investigate AARP

Commitment to Seniors Issues Updated Report Exposing AARP’s Financial Alliance with UnitedHealth & Conflicts of Interest with AARP’s Own Members Washington, D.C.—American Commitment is releasing an updated report to educate policymakers and the public regarding AARP’s financial relationships with large for-profit corporations such as UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest health insurance company.  The CommitmentToSeniors.org initiative first launched last year features original research exploring AARP’s systemic financial ties to UnitedHealth, frequently updated content as health care policy…

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