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Biden’s Pick for U.S. Health-Research Chief Stalled by Drug-Costs Fight [1]

['Liz Essley Whyte']

Date: 2023-10

Sen. Bernie Sanders says, ‘We’re sick and tired of hearing all kinds of rhetoric about the high cost of prescription drugs.‘ Photo: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press

President Biden’s choice to run the U.S. government’s medical research is at a standstill because of an impasse with Sen. Bernie Sanders over high drug costs.

Sanders, the Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats and chairs the Senate’s health committee, is refusing to hold a key hearing on Dr. Monica Bertagnolli’s nomination as National Institutes of Health director until the White House has spelled out a plan to cut drug prices, a spokesman said.

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