The proposals before us today will close loopholes that some drug companies are exploiting to game the system, unfairly raise drug prices, and take advantage of American families.
I want to spend some time talking about my bill, the Orange Book Transparency Act.
I strongly believe that generics will lower prices and that generic competition is important.
Can you just share some of the results on the state level, from the implementation of this law, and it can be either one of you.
The last group of bills make important updates to the Orange and Purple Books at the FDA.
These are all commonsense solutions that will remove unnecessary barriers to competition, and again I stress competition.
there are a significant number of children who are losing health coverage under Medicaid and CHIP.
I think we can all agree that, regardless of political affiliation, we should all want to ensure that children have access to healthcare.
According to HHS's data, in 2018, the number of children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP declined by nearly 600,000.
There is no data showing that the number of children enrolled in private health insurance coverage increased by 600,000 over the same period...
the number of uninsured children increased by 276,000.