I
said that at the
Finance Committee hearing two weeks ago.
And
I say it again: I want to lower prescription drugs NOW!
What
are we waiting for?
We
have a bipartisan prescription drug package called Wyden-Grassley – that will save
seniors $72 billion and taxpayers $95 billion.
Senator
Wyden said during the Finance Committee’s most recent drug
pricing hearing,
“There is no question that the committee came together in the last Congress and
came up with a number of constructive bipartisan reforms. Period. Full stop.”
Why
aren’t we advancing this bipartisan bill?
What
is the majority waiting for?
One
of my colleagues on the other side tweeted: “POTUS has the
authority to lower drug prices all on his own—and he should use it.”
The
Congressional Progressive Caucus is calling
for this too.
And
then in the Washington Post, I read this headline: “Advocates seek
other pathways to lower drug prices.”
Far-left
groups are pushing President Biden to bypass Congress and assert executive
authority giving up on a legislative path. Why?
It’s
not like all options for legislation have been exhausted.
The
majority has spent 15 months attempting to pass their partisan prescription
drug bill.
It’s
gone nowhere. It doesn’t have 60 votes.
But
it is not the only option.
Has
the Democrat majority given up on lowering prescription drug costs?
Are
they saying they have to do it in a way where only Democrats get credit or not
at all?
Do
Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign
issue?
The
longer we wait, patients and taxpayers will continue to suffer.
Let’s
work to advance a bipartisan prescription drug bill that can pass with
60+
votes.
We
can do it today!
It’s
already negotiated and ready to go!
I
will work with anyone who wants to pass the bipartisan Wyden-Grassley
bill.
Just
give me a call.
I
continue to meet with Democrats and Republicans to advance Wyden-Grassley.
In
the past 15 months, I’ve met or spoken with:
·President
Biden and White House staff
·Speaker
Pelosi
·Leader
McCarthy
·HHS
Secretary Becerra
·Ten
House Democrats who wrote to Speaker Pelosi wanting a bipartisan prescription
drug pricing bill
·Republicans
and Democrats from the Problem Solvers Caucus Health Care Working Group
·Congressman
Welch (D-Vt.)
·Congresswoman
McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)
·Democrat
Senators Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Carper (D-Del.)
·And
other rank-and-file members of Congress
While
Democrats talk about lowering drug costs, they haven’t made any progress.
The
only bipartisan progress that’s been made on drug pricing has been under
Republican leadership.
If
Republicans takes control of the Senate next Congress, Republicans will lower
prescription drug costs.
But
we don’t have to wait a year, let’s lower prescription drug costs TODAY!
