The Biden administration proposes to recind President Trump’s Most Favored Nation Policy.
Biden Budget Offers Potential Oversight Tool on 340B Program
The Biden administration’s budget includes new enforcement tools for oversight of the 340B program but the details will matter.
Biden Trips Badly on Intellectual Property in TRIPS
Days after praising World Intellectual Property Day, President Biden agrees to waive US COVID-19 patents.
Most Favored Nation Policy Is Unfavorable to U.S. Biopharmaceutical Research
Back in September, President Trump signed an Executive Order ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to implement a most favored nation (MFN) policy for pharmaceutical reimbursement in Medicare.
CAGW to HHS: Say No to State AGs Demands
On Tuesday, state attorneys general from across the country and two U.S. territories demanded that the federal government steal the patent for remdesivir.
The IPI – Are We All Socialists Now?
Adopting these policies would validate socialized medicine schemes like price controls and rationing.
CBO Releases the “Savings” Expected from Speaker Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Bill
H.R. 3 exerts so much government authority over the pharmaceutical industry.
Morning Joe Is Wrong: Medicare Does Negotiate Drug Prices
Today on the Morning Joe Show, a false narrative was perpetuated: Medicare does not negotiate drug prices. The show’s eponymous host, Joe Scarborough, called for free-marketers to call Congress and demand that the government negotiate Medicare drug prices. Joe needs to supervise his producers’ research better. The free market is very much involved in negotiating […]
Salvage the Good from the Healthcare Debacle
The healthcare reform juggernaut, arguably the most radical attempt to remake the economy and the nation’s healthcare infrastructure in history, was supposed to have flown through Congress before the August recess with nary a peep. Instead, as Americans have gotten wind of its alarming provisions and exorbitant costs, the plan appears to be fizzling fast in the summer heat.