Thursday, May 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders fights for reasonable drug prices, even while campaining

On March 28, 2016, Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Klobuchar joined the leaders of the House Democratic Task Force on Prescription Drug Pricing urging HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and NIH Director Francis Collins to hold a meeting “to allow the public to engage in a dialogue with the Department of Health and Human Services and NIH in order to better understand its position on the use of march-in rights to address excessive prices.”