AHF confronts PhRMA ahead of 340B hearing

10 July 2018
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With medicine affordability in the USA again becoming headline news on Monday due to President Trump’s tweeting on Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) pricing, another big day for pharma and patients is potentially in store on Wednesday.

The US House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on the 340B drug pricing program amid pressure from different players in the healthcare debate.

Pharmaceuticals Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry in the USA, is calling on Congress to ‘fix 340B’ and has run adverts on the Politico Pro site saying that ‘virtually every stakeholder has raised concerns’ with the program.

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