“HHS should consider using march-in rights when drugs face limited competition or market practices have failed to ensure an affordable price, ensuring that prescription drugs invented with taxpayer dollars are reasonably priced and affordable.”
Elizabeth Warren
Senator (D-Mass.). in a letter written to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Claim dated 28 Jul 2021.
Washington Post rated thisLacks context
What Washington Post found
This remains a theory. No administration or court has ever accepted this reasoning.
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In short
Elizabeth Warren (Senator (D-Mass.)) made this claim around 28 July 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 September 2021, 42 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
Where the claim appeared
- warren.senate.govhttps://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021.07.28%20Letter%20to%20Secretary%20Becerr…
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