Merck CEO refused to testify in Senate because he’s not an expert in drug pricing, Bernie Sanders says
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday jabbed the CEO of Merck for telling congressional staff that he didn’t have the expertise to testify at a Senate hearing on prescription drug prices because he’s a tax attorney.
Sanders, who has threatened to subpoena the CEOs of Merck and Johnson and Johnson over their refusal to testify at a hearing on why drug prices are higher in the United States than other foreign countries, told reporters the reasons the companies gave ranged from “laughable” to “absurd.”
