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Posted inDay One Agenda
Force Drug Companies to Lower Prices
Presidents have two powerful sticks that could weaken the pharmaceutical industry’s power to rake in astronomical profits.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Trump Poised to Give Big Pharma a Big Present in India Trade Deal
Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are discussing an agreement that would lock the world’s second-most-populous country into exclusive prescription drug arrangements.
Posted inTAP
The Oxymoron of House Democratic Governance
It was not a memorable week in the annals of Democratic policymaking. Earlier this week, I wrote a preview of H.R. 3, Nancy Pelosi’s drug-pricing bill, seen as the signature effort of this year’s legislative session. I mentioned in there that the summary, still riddled with questions, probably represented the high-water mark for the bill, […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Closer Look at Nancy Pelosi’s Plan for Lower Drug Prices
The bill, H.R. 3, has gotten considerably stronger from its initial concept, but questions remain.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Don’t Just Prosecute Law-Breaking Executives. Prosecute Companies Too.
Deferred prosecution agreements in two cases against companies that peddled opioids highlight the need for both personal and corporate accountability.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Three Bernie Sanders Bills to Arrest the Highway Robbery in the Prescription Drug Market
Allowing foreign imports, authorizing Medicare bargaining, or setting prices at what other nations pay—all good options
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Eliminates the Middleman
His administration takes aim at the heretofore legal kickbacks to prescription drug distributors—but leaves the drug companies themselves untouched.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Scam that Even Trump Opposes: PBMs
The administration’s welcome proposal to break up pharmacy benefit managers
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators