It’s a new year, but sadly Congress is still pursuing flawed price setting policies

January 25, 2022 Auto Bot Medicare, Out-of-Pocket Costs, Part B, Part D, Proactive Agenda 0

It’s a new year, but sadly Congress is still pursuing flawed price setting policies

As we kick off 2022, Congress has a number of priorities they are aiming to tackle, including the Build Back Better Act (BBBA). Unfortunately, the bill includes policies that would take the unprecedented step of allowing the government to set the price of certain medicines in Medicare. Here’s a refresher on why the drug pricing provisions in the BBBA are bad policy.