Shorter and fatter

The House Energy & Commerce Committee's 21st Century Cures draft legislation got 200 pages shorter and $10 billion more expensive last week as Republicans dropped controversial provisions and added NIH funding to gain support from Democrats.

The second iteration of the legislative discussion draft remains very much a work in progress with large portions bracketed, meaning the language is tentative, and with several placeholders indicating areas where there isn't sufficient agreement to propose even bracketed text. ...