Of course, the relationship between insurers, PBMs, drug companies, and others are complex, opaque, and confusing both to consumers and to providers.
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With every legislative solution, we got to consider the tradeoffs, especially when our solution is to grant additional authority to a government agency.
So if you are correct that this bill would hurt patients by driving up costs, typically when one group is being hurt in the economy, somebody else is doing better.
I think you are going to see, as you have seen, bipartisan interest in assisting the FAA in ensuring redundancy so that we don't see air traffic grounded again.
If this bill was enacted into law, based on your economic analysis, how would it impact drug prices for the average American?
If you are sitting in that Southwest flight, you knew how close you came to having a plane land on top of you, killing every person on that plane, you would understandably be horrified.
The 80 percent didn't help. It is not like it was only a 20 percent ground stop.
I think you are going to see, as you have seen, bipartisan interest in assisting the FAA in ensuring redundancy so that we don't see air traffic grounded again.
Now, Democrat members of Congress have the remarkable claim that the open borders under Joe Biden has no impact on the record fentanyl and drugs that are flooding across our borders.
Do the fixes that you proposed remove the risk of a similar single point of failure?
How can this happen? How did air traffic control direct one plane onto the runway to take off and another plane to land, and have them both within 100 feet of each other?





