04/10/2018
https://www.congress.gov...
"More than three out of four new patent applications for pharmaceuticals are for existing drugs."
"Despite these wins, there is more that we need to do to reduce exorbitant drug prices for all Americans."
"So drug companies use these tricks, and a lot of others, to keep their monopolies and keep pushing prices higher and higher and higher."
"So last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which finally gives HHS the authority to negotiate drug prices for a select number of high-priced brand-name drugs."