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FDA Recognizes Value of Tobacco Harm Reduction

Regulators approve less-harmful alternative to tobacco.

Alec Mena February 6, 2025
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Key Healthcare Policy Priorities for the 119th Congress

The new Congress should promote patient centered care, increase accessibility, affordability, and transparency.

Christina Smith December 4, 2024
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Medicare Must Be Reformed and Saved Not Expanded

Expanding benefits for medicare will hasten the program’s impending depletion. 

Christina Smith November 4, 2024
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340B Drug Discount Program is a Nightmare

Like many other well-intended programs 340B has ended up both wasting money and failing to provide benefits for patients.

Christina Smith October 10, 2024
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Price Controls Are Always a Bad Idea

Prices controls have always disrupted the marketplace and created shortages or excesses.

Christina Smith October 4, 2024
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The Case for 340B Reform Is Made on Capitol Hill

At a Capitol Hill briefing on the urgent need for reforms to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, the case was made for prompt action to fix the program.  The event took place at the Senate Visitors Center on September 23, 2024, and was hosted by the...

Thomas Schatz September 23, 2024
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USPTO-FDA Study Debunks Critics and Demonstrates the Importance of Protecting IP

USPTO-FDA study reinforces the need to protect pharmaceutical intellectual property rights for the future of new drug development.

Deborah Collier September 5, 2024
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The IRA Has Undermined Medicare Part D

The Inflation Reduction Act creates instability in the Medicare Part D Program.

Christina Smith August 28, 2024
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Not-So-Happy Birthday to the Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act will ultimately raise drug costs and reduce future cures.

Christina Smith August 15, 2024
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CAGW Submits Comments on FTC's Interim Staff Report on PBMs

Overregulating PBMs will drive up prescription drug costs and be a disservice to the millions of patients that benefit from them.

Eric Maus August 1, 2024
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New Study Shows PBMs Lower Drug Prices

A new report challenges assertions made during the committee's recent hearing on the role of pharmacy benefit managers.

Christina Smith July 30, 2024
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The FTC Wrongly Blames PBMs for High Drug Prices

The FTC fails to acknowledge the benefits of pharmacy benefit managers and wrong blames them for high drug prices.

Christina Smith July 9, 2024

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