WASHINGTON—On the same day John O’Brien was appointed as the next senior adviser to the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary for drug pricing reform, he published a blog post targeting conservative groups opposed to the administration’s attempts to rein in high drug prices by pegging them to other countries.
On Dec. 6, the American Conservative Union (ACU) took out a full-page ad in The Washington Times saying HHS’s plan to peg drug prices for seniors to prices in over a dozen countries will force Americans “to accept government price controls for live saving drugs based on deeply manipulated prices from Greece, Finland, France, and other socialist nations.”
