[Senate Report 114-429]
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114th Congress }                                      { S. Report
                           SENATE
 2d Session    }                                      {  114-429
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                             SPECIAL REPORT

                                 of the

                 U.S. SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING

                                 on the

                   SUDDEN PRICE SPIKES IN OFF-PATENT
                          PRESCRIPTION DRUGS:
                 THE MONOPOLY BUSINESS MODEL THAT HARMS
                        PATIENTS, TAXPAYERS, AND
                      THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM



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               December 20, 2016.--Ordered to be printed



     Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate December 10


                   (legislative day December 9), 2016

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                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                                       U.S. Senate,
                                Special Committee on Aging,
                                 Washington, DC, December 20, 2016.
Hon. Joe Biden,
President, U.S. Senate,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. President: Under authority of Senate Resolution 73 
agreed to on February 12, 2015, I am submitting to you a report 
of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging entitled: 
``Sudden Price Spikes in Off-Patent Prescription Drugs: The 
Monopoly Business Model that Harms Patients, Taxpayers, and the 
U.S. Health Care System.''
    Senate Resolution 4, the Committee Systems Reorganization 
Amendment of 1977, authorizes the Special Committee on Aging 
``to conduct a continuing study of any and all matters 
pertaining to the problems and opportunities of older people, 
including but not limited to, problems and opportunities of 
maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding 
employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding activity, 
of securing proper housing and, when necessary, of obtaining 
care and assistance.'' Senate Resolution 4 also requires that 
the results of these studies and recommendations be reported 
annually.
    I am pleased to transmit this report to you.
            Sincerely,
                                          Susan M. Collins,
                                                          Chairman.
                                                          



                                                          
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