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House Bill 2880 would create a penalty on drug manufacturers who raise prices excessively on their medicines. It's based on this ingenious idea from The Pew Charitable Trusts: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2018/07/a-tax-on-drug-price-increases-can-offset-costs
This bill is the first of its kind in the country. We need to pass it to show that states can take on Big Pharma and win.
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