Drug Pricing

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.-06) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.-03) and Protect Our Care for a virtual event celebrating the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic health care accomplishments, including taking on Big Pharma and lowering drug…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) along with 30 of their colleagues are calling on Senate leaders to advance a legislative solution to support access to Medicare services by ensuring health care providers who treat Medicare patients are adequately compensated for the care…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) hosted a panel discussion with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), health care experts, and patient advocates, focused on Big Pharma’s use of so-called patent 'thickets' to prevent generic and biosimilar drugs from entering the market, and the harmful…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today celebrated the White House’s announcement that it has sent initial negotiation offers through Medicare for the first 10 prescription drugs, selected last August, that are subject to price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Pharmaceutical companies…

WASHINGTON - Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) as well as Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.),…