Posts Tagged ‘price fixing’
Study projects extensive damage to drug development, jobs from drug-pricing policies
A new study estimates that there would be 237 fewer FDA approvals of new medicines over the next decade and 1.1 million lost jobs if proposals to expand government-mandated drug pricing policies are implemented.
Read MorePart D drug price “negotiation” comes at cost of jobs, investment, cures
Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 12. Included in the law is a provision that gives Medicare Part D the ability to “negotiate” the price of medicines for the first time. Negotiate is in quotation marks because lawmakers are being ironic; no one can legitimately call the new price-setting policy a negotiation.
Read MoreGovernment price fixing for U.S. medicines will cost lives, jobs, innovation
Legislation like H.R. 3 that fixes prices for prescription medicines would limit patients’ access to new treatments while doing nothing to lower prices at the pharmacy counter.
Read MoreExecutive order on drug prices does no favors for NC patients, hospitals
A new executive order that slashes Medicare payments to hospitals and physicians for certain medicines will hurt patients’ access to care and financially stress already overburdened hospitals and innovation-based pharmaceutical companies
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