Health Care

HAPPENING TODAY: Top House Democrats Launch Affordable Drug Pricing Task Force

Washington, D.C.—Members of the newly formed Affordable Drug Pricing Task Force will hold a press conference announcing meaningful action to combat the skyrocketing costs of pharmaceuticals.

Last week, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 77% of Americans identified the increasing prices of prescription drugs as their number one health concern.

Oversight Committee Democrats to Chairman Chaffetz: Stop Blocking Investigation of Skyrocketing Drug Prices

Washington, D.C. (Nov. 4, 2015)—Today, Rep. Elijah E.

HAPPENING TOMORROW: Top House Democrats Launch Affordable Drug Pricing Task Force

Washington, D.C.—Members of the newly formed Affordable Drug Pricing Task Force will hold a press conference announcing meaningful action to combat the skyrocketing costs of pharmaceuticals.

Last week, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 77% of Americans identified the increasing prices of prescription drugs as their number one health concern.

Washington, D.C. (Oct. 28, 2015)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Bipartisan Budget Agreement, which incorporates legislation Cummings introduced in May to curb the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs:

Sanders and Cummings Denounce Continued Prescription Drug Price Gouging

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after failing to receive a response from Turing Pharmaceuticals explaining why the company dramatically hiked prices overnight on a lifesaving drug: