SENATE 833117th CongressRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Empowering Medicare Seniors to Negotiate Drug Prices Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 3/18/2021
Actions
- 2021-03-18Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2021-03-18Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-03-18 (00)
Empowering Medicare Seniors to Negotiate Drug Prices Act of 2021
This bill allows the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate drug prices under the Medicare prescription drug benefit and to institute a price structure for the reimbursement of drugs covered under the benefit.
Cosponsors (20)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Christopher Coons (D-DE)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
- Timothy Kaine (D-VA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
- Joseph Manchin (D-WV)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Subjects
- Health care costs and insurance
- Inflation and prices
- Medicare
- Prescription drugs
- Public contracts and procurement
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