On the recordDecember 12, 2019
This is a good amendment. It would require H.R. 3 include a provision requiring each drug ad on TV to include the list price of the drug. I support this policy; Republicans do, as well. It is just a simple way to increase openness in healthcare, transparency that patients are, I think, searching for. In fact, this bipartisan approach is already in the Republican bill in front of us today, H.R. 19. I don't know why it was rejected in the initial Democrats' bill. I think perhaps it was written in secret. It was all partisan measures. We know, at the end of the day, it is deader than a doornail. But I think, after that is done, after impeachment--I don't know how many years that thing goes on and wastes our lives. But after all that foolishness is done, I hope our Democrat friends will come back to the negotiating table so we can work on more commonsense, bipartisan ideas like this one. Despite my strong opposition to H.R. 3--it is such a cruel and false choice to force people to choose between lower drugs and lifesaving cures for Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's, and so many cancers; that is just wrong--I do support this amendment. I urge my colleagues to support it, too. And I hope the gentlewoman from Iowa will continue to demonstrate her support for more openness by also supporting the bipartisan H.R. 19 when it comes to a vote later today. Let's vote. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
