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I need an answer to the post below. Please include at least 2 references. 250 wordsThe health policy I chose to discuss is Bill H.R.3: the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. This Bill was introduced by Representative Pallone, Frank Jr., on September 19, 2019. The objective of this bill is to lower pharmaceutical prices through fair drug negotiation. This bill establishes several programs and includes eight titles related to the prices of prescription drugs, health care coverage, and public health (congress.gov, n.d.). The titles include lowering prices through fair drug negotiation, Medicare parts B and D prescription drug inflation rebates, Part D improvements and maximum out-of-pocket cap for Medicare beneficiares, drug price transparency, program improvements for Medicare low-income beneficiaries, providing for dental, vision, and hearing coverage under the Medicare program, NIH, FDA, and opioids funding, and a small miscellaneous section (congress.gov, n.d.).High prescription drug prices effect both patients and health care systems. There is evidence to support this bill. In the textbook Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse’s G

uide, Milstead and Short state, “Studies continue to show that there is no correlation between increased spending on health care in the United States and reductions in population mortality” (2018, pp. 287). By 2015, U.S. spending on prescription drugs, the highest of any developing country, had hit around $1000 per person (HASS, 2019). The U.S. spends more money on prescription drugs than any other nation, and it is not associated with higher quality healthcare. The sustainability of continually spending thousands of dollars on prescription drugs is becoming a national concern. The Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act aims to reduce these national pharmaceutical costs.ReferencesCongress.gov (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house…HAAS, C. (2019). Drug price increases: Here we go again? Pharmacy Times. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.pharmacytimes.com/publications/health-system-edition/2019/march2019/drug-price-increases-here-we-go-again.Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2018). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.