As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Illinois' Senior Senator wants to reduce prescription drug prices.

Even with insulin capped at 35 dollars a month under Medicare, Senate Democrat Dick Durbin says the average prices on more than 12 hundred medications are up four-fold across the country. He called the Ensuring Affordable and Accessible Medications hearing to demand answers from large prescription drug manufacturers.

Earlier this year, a package of bills advanced out of Committee to lower prescription drug prices. However, a vote in the full Senate is awaiting.

Those bills, dubbed the Interagency (INTER-agency) Patent Coordination and Improvement Act, were introduced by Senator Durbin and Republican Senator Thom Tillis.