Senate Bill sb0610

    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                       SM 610

    By Senator Justice





    16-711-07

  1                         Senate Memorial

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to support the Medicare

  4         Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of

  5         2007.

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  7         WHEREAS, prescription drug prices have risen between 14

  8  and 19 percent during the past 4 years, which is five times

  9  the rate of inflation, and

10         WHEREAS, the value of the prescription drug benefit

11  authorized under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement,

12  and Modernization Act of 2003 will diminish each year if such

13  inflationary trend continues, and

14         WHEREAS, such federal act prohibits Medicare officials

15  from negotiating directly with pharmaceutical companies for

16  lower prices, and

17         WHEREAS, the United States Department of Defense, the

18  Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service

19  have achieved great savings through negotiation with

20  pharmaceutical companies, and

21         WHEREAS, negotiation and competition with respect to

22  prescription drug prices is in the best interest of Floridians

23  on Medicare, and

24         WHEREAS, the Medicare Prescription Drug Price

25  Negotiation Act of 2007 amends the previously passed Medicare

26  Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003

27  and will allow direct negotiation of prescription drug prices

28  with pharmaceutical companies, NOW, THEREFORE,

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30  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                       SM 610
    16-711-07




 1         That the Congress of the United States is urged to pass

 2  the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007.

 3         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

 4  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

 5  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

 6  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

 7  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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