Sanders Threatens to Oppose Biden Health Picks on Drug Costs (1)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has indicated he could block President Joe Biden’s likely pick to head the National Institutes of Health if she doesn’t commit in nomination hearings to using her position to help lower drug prices.

Sanders, who leads the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, stopped short of saying he would block cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli, but she is certain to face tough questioning if she receives the formal nomination.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the ranking member of HELP and a physician, said in an interview that no one has talked to him about a potential NIH ...