David Price: “H.R. 2427 is both a diversion and a danger. It is a diversion from the prescription drug coverage we should be…”

“H.R. 2427 is both a diversion and a danger. It is a diversion from the prescription drug coverage we should be providing. What have we done instead? We have instead passed a Republican Medicare bill which actually denies the Secretary of HHS the ability to negotiate volume discounts. So much for my colleague's elephant in the room. And it is a danger. This bill is a danger. It would allow distributors to import drugs that have been sold, stored and transported outside the FDA's closed regulatory system. Massive and haphazard reimportation is the wrong prescription for a very real problem, the lack of drug coverage under Medicare available to all beneficiaries. I urge colleagues not to be diverted, to vote against the inferior and dangerous solution which H.R. 2427 represents.”