March 21, 2022
Via: MedPageTodayWill Medicare drug price negotiation quash innovation of new drugs, or allow innovation to continue while also saving seniors from having to stop taking needed medicines or cut their pills in half? That was the focus of a Senate Finance […]
July 15, 2019
Via: ForbesLast week, President Trump declared his administration would soon issue an executive order mandating a so-called “favored nations” policy in which U.S. government (presumably, Medicare and Medicaid) payments for drugs would be capped at the lowest price paid by a […]
May 9, 2019
Via: CNBCThe Trump administration wants to shame pharmaceutical companies into lowering prescription drug prices, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told CNBC in an interview Thursday. Pharmaceutical companies will be required to disclose the list price of their prescription medicines […]
March 6, 2019
Via: CNBCAmericans are increasingly in favor of more federal regulation to rein in drug prices, including letting the government negotiate directly with drugmakers for the Medicare program, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Yet the poll also […]