By River Bend Times |
Aug 1, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representatives Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1) and Scott Peters (D-CA-50) led a group of 14 bipartisan colleagues in a request to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to advance bipartisan solutions to strengthen and reform the 340B Drug Discount Program. The 340B program was created by Congress in 1992 to help health care providers who deliver care and medicine to uninsured patients—such as federally funded hospitals and clinics—stretch scarce resources through access to discounted drugs. Since then, the program...