How The Republican House Can Prevent Medicare Price Controls From Becoming Death Sentences
March 14, 2023
Issues, Price and Costs
The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug pricing provisions will severely curtail life-science research. The IRA vests the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the power to impose price controls on an ever-expanding list of drugs. The direct result will be that seniors today — as well as future generations of patients — will lose out on access to life-saving cures because those treatments will never be developed. Until the political balance in Washington changes and this deadly folly can be repealed,...