Hello everyone.

Yesterday, The Finance Committee passed The Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007. Next week the full Senate plans to begin debate on this. The legislation would put the Government in the driver’s seat for dictating drug prices. You can see my opening statement I gave at the Finance Committee Mark-Up last night by clicking here.

Since the majority shift in congress at the begging of this year, I have led the opposition to this misguided policy that even the Congressional Budget Office says will lead to higher drug prices for veterans, Medicaid and others in the private sector.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: having the government negotiate drug prices for Medicare might be a good sound bite, but it’s not sound policy.

You can see the series of speeches I gave on this issue in January by clicking here.