WASHINGTON — Will House Democrats set their sights on high drug prices over Russian election hacking? Should drug industry CEOs be checking their mailboxes for subpoenas? Is Bob Casey or Greg Walden the next Orrin Hatch? What about the next Claire McCaskill?
Drug industry executives are no doubt buzzing over many questions in the wake of the Democrats’ takeover of the House. Democrats made health care a central plank of their re-election drive, and they’ve made clear that they’ll leverage their new power to make lots of noise about the high cost of prescription drugs.
So for the drug industry, these next two years will be, to put it mildly, challenging. Based on STAT’s conversations with key players, here are eight burning questions whose answers will help determine how significantly Tuesday’s midterms will shake up health policy in Washington:
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