Impact on Senior Citizens of Rising Drug Prices in
Medicare to Be Hearing Topic
Sen. Bill Nelson will be guest chair for Special
Committee on Aging hearing March 17
March 16, 2010 The Special Committee on Aging
will convene Wednesday, March 17, for a hearing to examine the rise of
prescription drug prices in America and its impact on senior citizens
who participate in the Medicare Part D program. Senator Bill Nelson
(D-FL) will be the acting chairman.
Witnesses will offer testimony on various topics,
including cost-sharing under Part D, how pharmaceutical pricing makes it
difficult for Part D plans to negotiate discounts, and policy options
for closing the doughnut hole and curbing escalating drug prices,
according to a news release from the office of the committee chairman,
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)..
Seniors Feeling the Squeeze: Rising Drug Prices
and the Part D Program, will convene at 2:30 p.m. in Room 562, Dirksen
Senate Office Building.
Among those providing testimony will be the
following.
● Dr. Gerard Anderson, Director, Center
for Hospital Finance and Management, and Professor, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
● John Dicken, Director, Health Care, U.S.
Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.
● Greg Hamilton, pharmaceutical industry
expert, Algonquin, IL
● Willafay McKenna, Medicare Part D
beneficiary, Williamsburg, VA
● John Calfee, Resident Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
The hearing can be viewed live or at a later time
by a webcast. A link to the webcast can be found at the committees
website:
http://www.aging.senate.gov/
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March 16, 2010 The Special Committee on Aging
will convene Wednesday, March 17, for a hearing to examine the rise of
prescription drug prices in America and its impact on senior citizens
who participate in the Medicare Part D program. Senator Bill Nelson
(D-FL) will be the acting chairman.
