Kevin Brady: “Patients or politics--that is really the choice we have today when we vote on these different drug pricing bills. There…”

“Patients or politics--that is really the choice we have today when we vote on these different drug pricing bills. There is a path forward that chooses politics. This path takes a partisan approach and throws away months of Republicans and Democrats working together to lower drug prices. Experts tell us this will delay or eliminate medical breakthroughs and lifesaving cures for American families. This piece of legislation is potentially unconstitutional, one that leads to patient access restrictions while giving more power to foreign bureaucrats to set prices for American patients right here. And at what cost? To save a few dollars in the short term for a dramatically worse landscape in America that discourages science, research, and discovery. So I think of Representative Kelly's young girl, Mattie Stuart, St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania. She has a Facebook page, Mattie's Followers. Go to that page. Understand how patients are waiting for us, for those new cures. I think of my friends in my neighborhood. We had a neighbor who died from a rare brain cancer. I have another who is fighting a glioblastoma; another neighbor, a very dynamic friend, who is now struggling with Parkinson's; two friends who have died from ALS; and my friends, acquaintances, coworkers who they or their parents struggle with dementia and Alzheimer's.…”