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Senate HELP Committee chair outlines priorities on drug prices, literacy, gig work and pensions
Summary
The chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee opened the 119th Congress committee meeting by listing prescription drug pricing, literacy and dyslexia services, campus antisemitism, gig-worker benefits and PBGC reform as priorities.
The chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee opened the committee’s first meeting of the 119th Congress by identifying several policy priorities, including lowering prescription drug costs, improving early-grade literacy and dyslexia services, addressing antisemitism on college campuses, supporting gig workers, and reforming the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
The chair said the committee can find common ground on drug pricing and cited earlier work on pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform and speedier access to generics. “One issue where we can find common ground is addressing the high cost of prescription drugs,” the chair said, adding that last Congress the committee “passed the PBM reform act, reforming malaligned incentives for PBMs and ensuring…
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