Democrats’ climate change/anti-inflation bill that the Senate passed over the weekend includes a drug pricing plan. In particular, the Inflation Reduction Act legislation would give Medicare the ability to negotiate drug prices. The legislation is now headed the House. A group of Republican physicians wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and…

Senate finance Committee members Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) are pushing to have a hearing to discuss the Medicare coverage of Aduhelm (aducanumab), Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s treatment, which recently won FDA approval. In a letter addressed to Senate Finance chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and ranking member Mike Crapo (R-ID), Warren and Cassidy express…