Cassidy Speaks on Health Care Reform, Kimmel Test, Cassidy-Collins Plan
Tuesday, US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) spoke on the Senate Floor to discuss the need to reduce insurance premiums, return power back to states and ensure that the final Obamacare repeal and replace plan passes the "Jimmy Kimmel Test."
To watch the speech, click here.
Cassidy, Bipartisan Group Calls for Hearing on Rising Drug Spending
On Monday
, US Senators Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) and Al Franken (D-MN) sent a bipartisan letter to US Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murry (D-WA), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions, requesting a committee hearing to address the important issues surrounding drug spending.
US Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Michael Enzi (R-WY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also coauthored the letter.
The senators wrote:
"Going forward, we need a comprehensive approach to identify trends related to growing drug spending, bring down overall health care costs, improve and reward quality, and promote innovation."
To read Chairman Alexander's letter in response, click here.
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