In the Grassley-Wyden 2-year investigation into insulin price-gouging, we found that that PBM scheme encourages drug makers to spike the drug list price.
Chuck Grassley
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Chuck Grassley is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa, a position he has held since 1981. A member of the Republican Party, Grassley has been influential in various legislative areas, including agriculture, judiciary, and finance. He has served in several key roles, including as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, making him one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history. Grassley is known for his commitment to transparency and accountability in government, often emphasizing the importance of oversight in federal agencies.
The current drug price system is so opaque that it is easy to see why there are many questions about PBM motives and practices.
The Prescription Pricing for the People bill requires the FTC to study pharmaceutical intermediaries, including vertical integration.
Something ought to get done this Congress, considering the fact that there is already a bill out of Judiciary, a bill out of Commerce.
Prohibits deceptive, unfair pricing schemes, including spread pricing and arbitrary clawbacks of payments made to pharmacies.
The Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Transparency Act (S. 127) requires transparency reporting by PBMs to shine sunlight on prices and fees associated with prescription drugs.
In the Grassley-Wyden 2-year investigation into insulin price-gouging, we found that that PBM scheme encourages drug makers to spike the drug list price.
The current drug price system is so opaque that it is easy to see why there are many questions about PBM motives and practices.
I believe it is our duty to understand how the pharmaceutical supply chain is working, and what we can do to improve it.
We are preached at by corporate elitists that think that we ought to be carbon-neutral by some arbitrary dates.
Bipartisanship is going to be really, really necessary if we're ever going to crawl out of our deep fiscal hole that we're in right now.
No one ever addresses just how harmful their decarbonization dreams would be in practice.
This is unfair, it is unjustified, and yet President Biden made no mention whatsoever that I know of about the new tariff when he had the chance.
I do not understand your equivocation over whether or not these agreements ought to be submitted to Congress.
This is unfair, it is unjustified, and yet President Biden made no mention whatsoever that I know of about the new tariff when he had the chance.
If you do not let the Mexican Government know right now that you are going to institute that, you are going to continue these conversations for the 2 years that they have already gone on.
When you were in Iowa, you heard about how concerned Iowa farmers are about Mexico's ban on biotech corn.
I do not understand your equivocation over whether or not these agreements ought to be submitted to Congress.
I want to thank the administration for implementing the new and voluntary Rural Emergency Hospital program that I have worked for 3 or 4 years to get passed.
Letting them continue has been a bipartisan priority under Presidents Obama, Trump, and now Biden.
Do you think that we should be underutilizing cost-effective rural hospital programs like the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration?
I want to thank the administration for implementing the new and voluntary Rural Emergency Hospital program that I have worked for 3 or 4 years to get passed.





