IRA Impacts: Cancer treatment research and development

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the reignited Cancer Moonshot, the White House’s ambitious goal of reducing the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years. Much of...
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Celebrating 40 years of the Orphan Drug Act on Rare Disease Day

For over a decade, Rare Disease Day has been celebrated on February 28 to raise awareness and generate change for the more than 30 million patients in the U.S. living with a rare disease. This year’s...
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WTAS: Inflation Reduction Act already impacting R&D decisions

The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) drug price setting provisions, as predicted, are already impacting biopharmaceutical research & development (R&D) decisions. Whether you are looking at estimates...
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ICYMI: PhRMA COO Lori Reilly speaks about the health care agenda for the next Congress

With a divided Congress, bipartisan action will be necessary to move the needle on health care policy. On December 7, 2022, PhRMA sponsored the Axios event, “The Post-Midterm Health Care Agenda,”...
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New government price setting policy threatens post-approval research

Have you ever noticed that one medicine might be used to treat two, three, seven different conditions? That’s the result of significant additional research and investment, including lengthy and...
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Rejecting ICER’s bad advice

America leads the world in biomedical innovation today because our system rewards investment in research and discovery of new treatments. Now, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Dr....
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New survey: Voters seriously concerned about fine print in reconciliation bill

With a final vote in Congress expected on a reconciliation spending bill, a new Morning Consult survey explores what this legislation actually does – and does not do – and finds that voters are...
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This week’s reading list: All the reasons the Senate-passed drug pricing bill is bad policy

Last weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes dangerous price-setting provisions. The bill now heads to the House for consideration, where it is not too late for them to...
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Myth vs. Fact: The Senate’s latest price setting proposal

The narratives being built around the Senate’s latest price setting proposal frame it as a bill intended to lower drug prices for patients and address rising inflation. But those narratives aren’t...
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An open letter to Congress: Stand with patients and future cures

I recently joined PhRMA board members in penning the letter below to Congress, urging them to abandon their latest drug pricing proposal. You can read the letter here or below:
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