21st Century Cures Act Has A Suspicious Payment Plan

The House of Representatives is scheduled this week to consider the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6), a health policy bill designed to improve the economic incentives and streamline the process for inventing new medicines.

We applaud the act. It will go a long way to solving the crisis in pharmaceutical innovation. But we caution against the mandatory funding proposal in the bill and urge Congress to authorize and appropriate the funds instead of creating a new, mandatory spending program.

Read the entire Health Alert at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.