Insulin and drug prices for seniors
What they say
His campaign says he successfully fought to cap the cost of insulin and to reduce the price of other prescription drugs for Ohio seniors.
“Brown successfully fought to cap the cost of insulin and reduce the price of other prescription drugs for Ohio seniors”
What the record shows ·
He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, in the sitting of August 6, 2022, which ran into August 7; the Senate divided 50 to 50 and the Vice President's vote carried it (Roll Call 325). It became Public Law 117-169. Section 11406 sets cost-sharing for insulin under Medicare Part D, and section 11001 begins Medicare negotiation of prices for certain high-priced drugs. In the same sitting he voted Yea to keep a wider $35 insulin cap, which Senator Murray said would help "not just seniors but workers and students"; it got 57 votes, short of the 60 needed, and the language was struck (Roll Call 314). In 2022 he also cosponsored Senator Raphael Warnock's Affordable Insulin Now Act, S. 3700, which would have limited what patients pay for insulin in private health plans as well as Medicare; it did not pass.
Limit: The cap that became law applies to Medicare, which is what "for Ohio seniors" says; the wider cap he also voted for failed. The bill passed on an evenly divided vote, so each of the fifty votes for it was needed. What a senator did beyond voting, which "fought" implies, is not something a roll call records.