Mark DeSaulnier: “I'm grateful obviously, for this drug, but I wonder why in Australia the same diagnosis provides the exact same…”

That was the most extreme in the ten years I have been here in Congress.

When ERISA was enacted in 1974, Congress made its intent clear. The law's primary purpose is to 'protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans, and their beneficiaries.'

This is a mixed market economy, a capitalist economy, and it requires rules and guidance.

The denial would eventually be reversed, but the decision came almost a month after Kyree's death.