J&J Sues Biden Administration to Block Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

J&J Sues Biden Administration to Block Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
Johnson & Johnson corporate headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., on Nov. 3, 2009. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Top right: The anti-psychotic drug Risperdal produced by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Housed, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bryan Jung
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Johnson & Johnson sued to stop the U.S. government from empowering Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare recipients.

The major drugmaker became the third player in the industry attempting to halt the Medicare drug-price negotiations established by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), in a claim filed in the U.S. District Court in Trenton, New Jersey.

The IRA, which narrowly passed in 2022 via the then Democrat-controlled House and Senate, gave Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices for the first time in its six decade history.

Bryan Jung
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Bryan S. Jung is a native and resident of New York City with a background in politics and the legal industry. He graduated from Binghamton University.
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