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Neal Wants Pelosi Drug Pricing Savings To Go To NIH, Pallone Unsure
House Ways & Means Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) wants some of the savings from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) drug pricing plan to fund research at the National Institutes of Health, and said the change could be made in an amendment in the House Rules Committee. However, House Energy & Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), whose committee has jurisdiction over the issue, said he is unsure whether to allocate some savings to NIH.

Debate Over Int'l Drug Prices Overshadows Domestic Reference Pricing
Despite the focus on international prices, there is still debate over how to set uniform prices for therapeutically similar drugs. The Bipartisan Policy Center on Tuesday (Oct. 22) released a report analyzing approaches to both foreign and domestic reference pricing for controlling drug costs. Several countries in Europe combine versions of those approaches to set drug pay rates.

Doggett Gets Little Democratic Support For His Drug Price Amendments
Twelve hours after it started, the House Ways & Means Committee markup of Democrats' Medicare drug-price negotiation bill took an odd turn as health subcommittee Chair Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) failed to get but a few votes in support of his amendment to extend negotiated drug prices to the uninsured. Republicans, who had been at odds with Democrats all day, voted "present" for the measure.