Democratic reform plans risk slowing new drug development

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Democratic legislation to lower prescription drug prices could also result in fewer drugs being produced each year.

“We all know how outrageously expensive drugs are in America,” President Joe Biden said in his address to Congress in April, in which he asked for legislation to have the government intervene more directly in prescription pricing.

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