Bill > SR27

This Resolution urges the Biden Administration to lift a regulatory freeze on executive orders, specifically Executive Orders Nos. 13937, 13838, 13939, and 13947, which were issued in 2020 by President Donald J. Trump with the stated goal of significantly lowering the cost of life-saving prescription drugs for Americans. These executive orders aimed to achieve this by ending a system of "kickbacks by middlemen" that allegedly inflate out-of-pocket costs, requiring federal community health centers to pass on discounts for drugs like insulin and epinephrine directly to patients, allowing for the safe importation of prescription drugs from countries where they are cheaper, and ensuring that Medicare and seniors do not pay more for certain drugs than is paid in comparable economically developed nations, thereby preventing Americans from subsidizing lower drug prices for other countries. The resolution argues that the current delay in implementing these orders places millions of Americans, including seniors, the impoverished, and the uninsured, at risk due to the high cost of essential medications.