Safety-net hospitals, health centers, and HIV/AIDS clinics yesterday applauded the 226 U.S. representatives—more than half of the House’s members—who signed Friday’s bipartisan letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Norris Cochran seeking “immediate action to ensure that manufacturers are prohibited from imposing unilateral changes to the program in direct conflict with congressional intent and decades of written guidance.”
HHS Secretary-designate Xavier Becerra was copied on the Feb. 26 letter. As California Attorney General, Becerra co-led a bipartisan coalition of 29 top state law officials in a December letter to then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar demanding federal action against the six drug manufacturers—Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, United Therapeutics—that were the focus of Friday’s U.S. House letter.
Safety-net hospitals, health centers, and HIV/AIDS clinics yesterday applauded the 226 U.S. representatives—more than half of the House’s members—who signed Friday’s bipartisan letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Norris Cochran seeking “immediate action to ensure that manufacturers are prohibited from imposing unilateral changes to the program in direct conflict with congressional intent and decades of written guidance.”
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