Insight & Intelligence™ : May 23, 2012
FDA Reform Legislation Emerges as Exception to Washington Gridlock
The fifth five-year authorization of the“We need to enact this user fee bill by the end of June. We are on track to accomplish this goal,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, said. He has called for sending a bill to President Barack Obama before July 4. The Senate moved its bill onto its calendar for floor action; the House is expected to do likewise.
The Senate and House have produced two very similar versions in recent weeks. “I would say it’s pretty surprising how significantly they lined up,” Nancy Bradish Myers, president/founder of Catalyst Healthcare Consulting, told GEN. “The politicians realized that each one of these user fee agreements had good agreement between the agency and industry. They realized that with an election year, if they wanted to go home and claim to have done something significant on the healthcare front that actually helps people get the medicines they need, that a bipartisan agreement needed to be done carefully and quickly.”
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