Rep. Pallone pushes House Republicans to address drug shortages in PAHPA reauthorization

Rep. Frank Pal­lone (D-NJ) is call­ing on House Re­pub­li­cans to reau­tho­rize the Pan­dem­ic and All-Haz­ards Pre­pared­ness Act in a bid to ad­dress the near-record drug short­ages in the US.

Pal­lone, a House En­er­gy and Com­merce Com­mit­tee mem­ber, asked House Re­pub­li­cans on Mon­day to take ac­tion to ad­dress “the na­tion­al drug short­age cri­sis” when Con­gress reau­tho­rizes the PAH­PA this year.

“Every day there are new re­ports of the im­pact the na­tion­al drug short­age cri­sis and oth­er sup­ply chain is­sues are hav­ing on Amer­i­cans,” he said in a state­ment. “There are heart­break­ing sto­ries of can­cer pa­tients who have had their chemother­a­py ap­point­ments can­celed due to short­ages, par­ents who can’t find chil­dren’s as­pirin on store shelves and mil­lions of Amer­i­cans strug­gling to fill pre­scrip­tions to treat AD­HD.”

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