Bipartisan report from senators calls for drug pricing reform

The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging released a bipartisan report yesterday suggesting ways to respond to spikes in drug pricing. The report comes after a months-long investigation spearheaded by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri).

The senators wrote that massive spikes in drug prices are “gouging” patients and that lawmakers should respond. “We must work to stop the bad actors who are driving up the prices of drugs that they did nothing to develop at the expense of patients just because, as one executive essentially said, ‘because I can,’” Collins said in a statement.

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