Ron Wyden

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal.

I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability for both current and future patients.

Nobody wants America to return to that time.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

If Republicans go after Medicaid the way they did in 2017 by cutting Federal support to State Medicaid programs... that guaranteed backstop of nursing home care for seniors is ripped away.

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the Federal deficit are not mutually exclusive.

As long as I'm chairman of the Finance Committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

None of us wants America to return to that time.

The President's budget has several bold proposals to build on the Inflation Reduction Act that will hold big pharma accountable.

That's a sharp contrast to the Republican approach to the Federal budget since the beginning of this year, which amounts to demanding secret negotiations on unspecified cuts to Federal programs while holding hostage the full faith and…

When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of prescription drugs; and investing in…

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the deficit are not mutually exclusive.

If Congress fails to act on this front, patients--and especially seniors--will inevitably suffer.

I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics.

CMS appreciates Chairman Wyden's and Chairman Casey's leadership on the critical issue of emergency preparedness in nursing homes.

We can help working families and seniors and the middle class get ahead.

This is urgent, urgent business.

If you and your loved ones do not have your health, everything else goes by the board.

I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years.

Unfortunately, not all Medicare Advantage is created equal.

We are going to be having a hearing next Thursday in this committee specifically on them.

I am a very strong supporter of accelerated approval for these very exciting new drugs for Alzheimer's.

We certainly are not going to go backwards; at least certainly the majority in the United States Senate is not going to go backwards.

We worked really hard together on the Safer Communities Act, and really have the most, the strongest investment in mental health and addiction services literally in 50 years.