Big Pharma is adjusting to a Congress controlled by Democrats determined to impose costly restrictions on their business.
Five committees are planning investigations into how to lower prices paid by Medicare, improve drug-safety enforcement and make generic medications available faster.
Further probes and policy salvos may follow.
"The Democrats want to leverage their power to generate some PAC donations from a very wealthy industry,'' Tufts University's Professor Jeffrey Berry says.
"With one hand they're going to spank the industry, and with another hand they're going to hold their hands palms up.''
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