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Resolution asks attorney general to investigate alleged anticompetitive pricing by hospitals and drug makers
Summary
Representative Don McFarland presented HR 14, asking the state attorney general to examine whether monopolistic hospital and pharmaceutical pricing harms consumers. McFarland cited Supreme Court precedents and urged enforcement; colleagues asked about legal basis, costs and alternatives.
The committee heard testimony on House Resolution 14, which urges the New Hampshire attorney general to investigate whether anticompetitive practices by health systems and pharmaceutical manufacturers are driving up prices and harming consumers.
Representative Don McFarland, the prime sponsor, framed the resolution as a fairness measure that asks the attorney general to examine pricing practices, contracting and other arrangements that can lead to opaque or widely variable charges for the same medical services and medicines. McFarland cited two U.S. Supreme Court decisions he said support enforcement against exclusionary pricing: Group Life and Health Insurance Company v. Royal Drug Company and Arizona v.…
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