APC has taken a major step this week toward a more efficient, effective regulatory approach for...
We couldn’t ask for more: At a House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Health Subcommittee hearing this week, Rep. Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee — not only one of the two pharmacists in Congress, but also a compounding pharmacist — presented HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with APC’s Blueprint for Eliminating Redundant, Unauthorized, or Ineffective Regulation that Impedes Patient Access to Compounded Drugs.
“I have a blueprint of ideas that I would like to submit to the record to eliminate redundant and ineffective regulations that impede patient access to compounded medications,” she told the subcommittee. “I want to work with the FDA on that to fix some of the incompatibilities and clarify some of the laws that the FDA has put in place that keeps needed medications away from patients.”
We can’t thank her enough for delivering our Blueprint right to where it needed to go to have the most effect on the regulations that continue to put unnecessary pressure on compounding pharmacists.
But get this: RFK, Jr. didn’t just say “Thanks” and file the Blueprint away. Referring to the executive order requiring the elimination of 10 federal regulations for every new regulation adopted, ‘Your blueprint sounds like a target-rich environment,’ he told Harshbarger. That’s exactly what we intended when we created it.
Our friends at Hance Scarborough were kind enough to share informal notes from the hearing. You can read the section featuring Harshbarger’s and Kennedy’s exchange here (keep in mind that these are notes, not a transcript).
And if you want to watch the hearing itself, it’s on YouTube; here’s a link to where Harshbarger begins her testimony.
