Sen­ate bill to cut health costs, tar­gets FDA tweaks

The Sen­ate Health, Ed­u­ca­tion, La­bor and Pen­sions (HELP) com­mit­tee on Thurs­day un­veiled a dis­cus­sion draft of a new wide-rang­ing bill to help cut health care costs.

The draft in­cludes nine sec­tions re­lat­ed to the FDA, in­clud­ing ef­forts mir­ror­ing House-passed bills re­form­ing the Or­ange Book and Pur­ple Book, as well as ini­tia­tives to in­crease gener­ic drug com­pe­ti­tion.

For­mer FDA Com­mis­sion­er Scott Got­tlieb praised the Sen­ate draft: “These mea­sures WILL low­er prices. The most tan­gi­ble set of bi­par­ti­san re­forms to emerge.”

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