Lizzie Fletcher: “Let me repeat that: These 10 drugs alone cost seniors $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2022. While Democrats and…”

“Let me repeat that: These 10 drugs alone cost seniors $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2022. While Democrats and President Biden are fighting for lower drug costs, House Republicans want to stop negotiations altogether. Democrats are delivering, and we will continue to work to lower prescription drug prices for seniors and families across our country, but this bill does not do that. For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules permitted, I would have offered this motion with an important amendment to the bill to prevent this bill from taking effect until the Secretaries of HHS, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, certify that it will not result in an increase in prescription drug prices or an increase in patient costs in the United States. Mr. Chair, I include in the Record the text of my amendment. Mrs. Fletcher moves to recommit the bill H.R. 485 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith, with the following amendment: Add at the end the following new section: SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.…”