Republican members on the committee expressed concerns with the legislation, particularly that it would discourage innovation for new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry.
"I don't believe that I was elected to write bills that would never go anywhere," said Michael Burgess of Texas, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee's health panel. "And that's exactly where this bill is headed."
The legislation will need to move through other committees before it can go to the full House floor for a vote. Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders, who had been working on the plan for months, are working to get it through committees to the floor as soon as the end of this month. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the bill Thursday on a party-line vote.
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