NTU: North Dakota's Price Control Bill Threatens Prescription Drug Access
North Dakota’s misguided attempt to create prescription price controls is getting national attention.
The previously scheduled hearing was rescheduled to Monday, January 16th @ 9am in the Senate Human Services Committee.
From the National Taxpayers Union:
As legislatures ramp up across America, states are seeing new attempts to help expand access and decrease the cost of health care for Americans.
Lowering the actual cost of health care — specifically prescription drug costs — requires an overarching look at the system patients use to obtain medicine. Waving a simple magic wand and enacting price controls won't solve the problem. In fact, it creates new problems for patients whose cures still need to arrive on the market.
As the nation's oldest taxpayer advocacy organization, National Taxpayers Union stands firmly on the side of taxpayers and patients as we look at reducing the costs taxpayers and patients pay for health care.
State legislators have already introduced a bill in North Dako…
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