EXCLUSIVE: Cruz And Roy Unveil Legislation To Cut Red Tape In Health Care
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy reintroduced legislation Wednesday to cut red tape preventing Americans from accessing pharmaceutical drugs and medical therapies available in other countries. The GOP…
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy reintroduced legislation Wednesday to cut red tape preventing Americans from accessing pharmaceutical drugs and medical therapies available in other countries.
The GOP lawmakers’ Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments (RESULT) Act would expedite the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug approval process to give Americans’ access to drugs and devices already approved in certain countries, according background on the bill shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bill requires the agency to act within a 30-day window on denying or granting an application requesting reciprocal approval of drugs approved in other like-minded countries, including European Union member countries, the United Kingdom, Israel, Canada and Japan.
“Washington bureaucracy and regulations far too often interfere with the Healthcare decisions of patients and their doctors,” Cruz told the DCNF. “The RESULT Act will facilitate access to life-saving drugs, devices, and medical treatments that are already proven safe and effective in other trusted countries, empowering patients to access the medications they need to improve their health. I’m proud to be advancing it, and I call upon my colleagues to expeditiously take it up and pass it.”
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Cruz and Roy have introduced the RESULT Act several times in previous Congresses. The lawmakers are hopeful that Robert F. Kennedy’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” and commitment to disrupt the health care status quo will lead the newly-confirmed Health and Human Services secretary to support passage of the RESULT Act.
“I like Bobby a lot. I think he is a change agent,” Cruz told Texas local news station KGNS-TV on Jan. 30. “I think he, in particular, he’s willing to take on the cronyism that we see in the Department of Health and Human Services of giant corporations, Big Pharma, that gets in bed with the regulators, and you end up having huge barriers to new drugs, huge barriers to new medical devices. And I think he’s going to shake shake it up. I think, I think patients have a right to try.”