House Democrats: GOP blocking investigation into high drug prices

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House Democrats: GOP blocking investigation into high drug prices

by Rachel Weiner at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/04/house-democrats-gop-blocking-investigation-into-high-drug-prices/

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are chastising Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) for rebuffing their efforts to investigate price hikes by two pharmaceutical companies.

"My constituents are dying," Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) said at a news conference Wednesday morning. "They are dying because they cannot get a cure."

In a letter to Chaffetz, he and other members said Republicans have "refused every request" to hold hearings or issue subpoenas to drug companies. They ask Republicans to allow them to move forward next month: "Even if you have no interest in investigating these abuses on behalf of your own constituents, we ask that you not block us from investigating them on behalf of ours."

Cummings has for months been urging an investigation into Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which is now being probed by federal prosecutors, and has demanded documents from both Valeant and Turing Pharmaceuticals. After those requests were refused, he and his fellow Democrats in September pushed for hearings where the CEOs of the two firms would testify.



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[randys1]

1. Of course they are. Anything that interferes with billionaires profits is bad.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Those companies must not make cancer drugs.

Wasn't it Chaffetz who was all indignant about how money was going to Planned Parenthood instead of towards 'cancer cures'?

[sharp_stick]

5. They don't

These aren't drug companies at all. They are nothing more than the typical hedge fund scumbags that figured out a way to screw people out of money.

[saturnsring]

3. here's another reason to vote but but but both sides are the same

[hifiguy]

4. Everyone who is surprised by this stand on your head...

Like the sun rising in the east, it is...