You can't just do that and expect these healthcare pharma issues to be taken care of without funding those agencies.

I am tremendously encouraged to see bipartisan efforts to address these critical needs and to help improve access to affordable prescription drugs for patients.

In closing, the American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and other barriers to affordable healthcare.

It is unacceptable that many seniors cannot afford the arthritis medication they need to perform everyday tasks.

to explicitly prohibit healthcare mergers that enable greater exploitation of existing market power and are likely to result in harm to consumers.

Absolutely, Mr. Buck, and I look forward to our ongoing discussion on that really critical issue.

First, I would suggest negotiation of drug prices under Medicare, a bill that I lead with Representative Welch.

thank you for your testimony that I think really helped to inform the work of this Committee

Break them up. That is the remedy that I have advocated on some of the Big Tech companies.

I also have worked on that bill with Senator Grassley.

I am also pleased to be in partnership with Representatives Johnson and Issa in a House companion to a bill.

It is outrageous that we still have this practice going on where pharmaceuticals are paying their competitors to keep their products off the market.