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Drug Price Transparency Bills May Be Empty Calories

 
• By Ramsey Baghdadi

Price justification legislation is advancing in both chambers of Congress. But CBO scores them as no savings. 

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Delicious, but it's not going to help. Just like drug pricing transparency legislation.

Like keeping to a healthy diet, enacting drug price reforms can often feel like hard work. That may be why the US House and Senate are indulging in the empty legislative calories of transparency mandates.

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