Pallone Lauds Biden's Commitment To Healthcare

LONG BRANCH-After President Joe Biden held his first joint address to Congress, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement about his thoughts on Biden’s first $100 days in office.

“During his first 100 days in office, President Biden has accomplished a tremendous amount to crush COVID-19 and provide relief to struggling families, including the largest expansion of health care coverage in more than a decade,” Pallone said in the press release.

Pallone said that he looked forward to working with the President on making prescription drugs more available and cheaper for citizens, something Pallone is working on with the reintroduction of the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act.

“I look forward to working with the President to make health care and prescription drugs more affordable,” Pallone said.

“President Biden plans to build on the Affordable Care Act by making monthly health care premium reductions permanent, which will lower health care costs for millions of Americans,” Pallone added.

“(Biden) also committed to giving the federal government the ability to negotiate lower prescription drug costs, a key provision in the drug pricing legislation that I and other Democratic health leaders introduced last week.”