Hill August 29, 2023
The White House on Tuesday bashed House Republicans for pursuing “handouts” for pharmaceutical companies to highlight its announcement of the first 10 drugs chosen for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
“[A]s the Biden Administration takes these newest historic actions to lower drug costs for Americans and strengthen Medicare, congressional Republicans continue to side with Big Pharma’s price gouging and cuts to Medicare benefits instead,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates wrote in a memo.
“Not only do congressional Republicans want to take the new benefits being announced today away from Americans with repeal legislation — they are even siding with Big Pharma’s lawsuits to stop them in their tracks,” he wrote.
The drugs, announced Tuesday by the...
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