Mr. President, I would like to take the opportunity to honor the life and memory of Sergeant Sean Gannon of the Yarmouth Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty on April 12, 2018. This week is National Police Week, a time to…
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
Mr. President, at this very moment, a high school junior is reading a report online for a class paper she has due at the end of the week. Not far from her house, a single mom who recently quit her job to follow her dream of becoming an app…
The reason you have not received any referrals is because the Trump administration has already delayed the implementation of these penalties not once, not twice, not three times, but four separate times since 2017.
If the President is truly worried about the connection between high drug prices and the 340B Program, he could start by implementing the law that Congress wrote to actually stop drug companies from cheating on their discounts.
These findings led Congress to include a provision in the Affordable Care Act to crackdown on this behavior.
The GAO raised concerns that the 340B Program, quote, 'Primarily relies on self-policing; that is, participants ensuring their own compliance with program requirements.'
The 340B Program has one basic requirement, that drug companies must provide discounted medications to hospitals and clinics caring for the most vulnerable patients: children with cancer, the uninsured, the underinsured, people with HIV…
In order for the 340B Program to work, the ceiling price calculations need to be done correctly, and there need to be consequences when drug companies break the law and deliberately overcharge for these drugs.
I will take that as, no, you cannot come up with a reason, but you are not telling me you will commit to keeping capital standards high.
The defining economic event of the last 50 years was the 2008 financial crisis, and as Alan Greenspan later admitted, it was brought about in part because the Fed did not do its job on regulation.





