TAPP Signs Onto Coalition Letter Calling for Crackdown on 340B Drug-Pricing Program

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity recently signed onto a letter with 40+ coalition partners asking Congress to crack down on the 340B drug-pricing program, which provides discounted prices for certain so-called safety-net providers to purchase outpatient drugs. 

In part, the letter said, "As we continue to advance legislation in this Congress to reduce the size and scope of the federal government, and to move the healthcare system in a more free market direction, it’s imperative that Congressional attention remain focused on the ways in which governments are distorting healthcare, and in particular the behavior of large non-profit hospitals. Until this hospital sector (which does not include rural safety net hospitals) is freed from this government influence, socialized medicine remains a key threat to the American people... The 340B program is supposed to help hospitals provide care to indigent populations at low or no cost, but it is now routinely used fraudulently."

Read the full letter here.