Will the Speaker’s office finally spill the beans on its drug pricing plan?
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by Nicholas Florko
May 07, 2019
4 minutes
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STAT Scooplet: Wendell Primus set to break his silence
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health policy expert Wendell Primus is set to address a congressional drug pricing briefing Friday afternoon — his first public remarks since news broke that he has quietly been crafting the speaker’s own drug pricing plan. Primus has been in talks with the White House about his idea for using arbitration to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. And his efforts have single-handedly set off something of a drug-pricing-focused
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