SENSE OF CONGRESS ON LOWERING THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

SEC. 609. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON LOWERING THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should commit to engaging with the House of Representatives and the Senate to take administrative actions and enact legislative changes that— (1) will lower the cost of prescription drugs for consumers and reduce the burden of such cost on taxpayers; and (2) in lowering such cost, will— (A) balance the need to encourage innovation with the need to improve affordability; and (B) strive to increase competition in the pharmaceutical market, prevent anticompetitive behavior, and promote the timely availability of affordable, high-quality generic drugs and biosimilars.