DPC Testifies Against Expansion of 340B in Michigan

Today, Domestic Policy Caucus Secretary/Treasurer Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., delivered a testimony to the Michigan Senate Committee on Oversight opposing the expansion of 340B, the federal law on prescription drugs, in Michigan, as contained in SB1179.

Kaiser wrote, in part, “Making a bad program bigger is not the answer. The 340B program should be fixed before there’s any discussion of expanding it. You should provide oversight to hold covered entities responsible for delivering on 340B’s stated purpose. Simply defining who is a 340B patient and ensuring the money flows to those eligible patients – instead of big box pharmacies and hospital systems – is a commonsense first step.”

Read the full testimony here.