As JP­Mor­gan mad­ness sub­sides, De­moc­rats will un­veil a leg­isla­tive pack­age to ad­dress drug price hikes

On the night be­fore the start of JP Mor­gan — a con­fer­ence where bio­phar­ma ex­ec­u­tives big and small waxed lyri­cal about in­no­va­tion, adorned with name badges fea­tur­ing a gold DNA cap­sule — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump tweet­ed his dis­plea­sure that drug­mak­ers were not hon­or­ing their promis­es to rein in prices. He wasn’t wrong. Da­ta sug­gest drug­mak­ers have re­turned to busi­ness as usu­al. And now, af­ter De­moc­rats clawed back con­trol of the House, they’re ex­pect­ed to un­veil a leg­isla­tive pack­age to­day to ad­dress what the White House has so far at­tempt­ed in vain to do: cut prices for pre­scrip­tion drugs.

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