Below is this week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update,” which is posted on Mondays when Congress is in session.
SENATORS RACE TO FINISH DRUG PRICING BILL AS TRUMP PLANS STALL
With only 15 legislative days before a scheduled monthlong recess, Senate leaders are scrambling this week to seek consensus on ambitious legislation to lower prescription drug prices, particularly after major pharmaceutical industry initiatives by the Trump administration were derailed last week.
Senate Finance Committee leaders Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have been working for months on a package of bills to lower drug prices – and they are hinting a deal is close.