Bill Text: OR HJM14 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled

Oregon House Joint Memorial 14 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Urging Congress to enact legislation permitting negotiation of drug prices and rebates on behalf of Medicare recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-29 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HJM14 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HJM14-Enrolled.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                     House Joint Memorial 14

Sponsored by Representative BUCKLEY

To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the rising cost of health care in the United States is
a major driver for budgets at the national, state and household
levels; and
  Whereas the cost of prescription medications is a major
contributor to health care cost increases; and
  Whereas prescription drug companies in the United States
receive the benefit of special patent protections and
prohibitions against the reimportation of less expensive
prescriptions available in other countries, including Canada; and
  Whereas in the United States, unlike in many other countries in
the world, prescription drug companies are permitted to engage in
extensive direct-to-consumer marketing; and
  Whereas private consumers and publicly funded health care
programs in the United States pay more for prescription
medications than those in any other country in the world; and
  Whereas although federal agencies such as the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service are
permitted to negotiate with prescription drug companies for drug
rebates, such negotiation on behalf of Medicare recipients is
prohibited; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully urged to enact legislation permitting the United
States Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug
prices and rebates for Medicare recipients.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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                                  Adopted by House May 2, 2013

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                                 Ramona J. Line, Chief Clerk of
                                              House

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                                  Tina Kotek, Speaker of House

                                 Adopted by Senate May 23, 2013

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

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