PRNewswire:
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz and key members of Congress, including Representative Chris Van Hollen, Chairman Bobby Rush, and Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, today renewed their call for legislation that would put an end to anticompetitive patent settlements, which drug manufacturers have been using to keep less-expensive medicines off the market and charge consumers billions of dollars a year in higher drug prices.....
From Marketplace American Public Radio:
House and Senate leaders met to work out differences over generic drugs in their health care bills. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports the House wants to be sure there's a provision for bringing them to the market sooner, saving billions...
...Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy, an Ohio Democrat, says the lack of generics hurts her constituents.
MARY JO KILROY: I've heard from people who have heart medications that have had an impossible time paying for their drugs, get half of their prescriptions....
Meanwhile, her opponent, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, has been working the far right extremes in the Ohio Republican Party as he talks about states' rights, and the usual far right litany of topics.
