In the coming weeks and months, legislators will make increasingly painful political and financial choices on issues such as universal coverage, employer mandates, prescription drug benefits and new taxes
Smits said that the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare would create a huge new market for drugs, but that the government as a buyer will need tools for negotiating prices with sellers in that market
User fees collected from the prescription drug industry would rise from the estimated $56 million to be collected in 1994 to $79 million in 1995...Under questioning by congressional representatives about the effectiveness of user fees, Kessler argued that proceeds from the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 has allowed FDA to recruit 180 additional medical reviewers to date
Stark's plan, currently under consideration by the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, provides for universal coverage of all uninsured Americans and extends prescription drug coverage to Medicare recipients -- two core reform elements that many believed would be fiscally irreconcilable...A spokesman for Stark said the congressman is "strongly committed to addressing the problem of prescription drug prices" and won't be bargaining with that chip any time soon. -- Lisa
WASHINGTON -- At a recent hearing on prescription drug pricing before the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Genentech Inc.'s chief executive officer, Kirk Raab, argued the biotechnology industry's case against perceived price control elements in President Clinton's health care reform proposal
Pulmozyme was unanimously recommended for approval by the European Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) in January, and was subsequently licensed by the U.K. Medicines Control Agency, the government agency that oversees prescription drugs under Britain's single-payer program
The agencywide freeze prevented FDA from hiring personnel needed to implement the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, even though the jobs were to be financed by that program
In October, Cygnus signed an agreement with Procter & Gamble to apply its drug-delivery technology for an unspecified product sold directly to the consumer (as opposed to a prescription drug
In September, Penederm submitted new drug applications with the FDA for its first prescription drug products, retinoic acid formulations for treating acne
Clinton acknowledged the life-saving and cost-reducing potential of biotechnology drugs, and may have been referring to motivation for research when she said that the payment for prescription drugs under the health-care plan "would greatly enhance the money going to our pharmaceutical drug manufacturers
He compiled a list of over 90 popular prescription drugs that have increased in price much faster than the inflation rate for the first six months of 1993
Releasing the survey at a press conference in Washington, D.C., PMA used the event as a forum to speak against mandatory price controls on prescription drugs
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are expected to approve supplemental appropriations for the Prescription Drug User Fee Act today
In fact, Syntex has been marketing Naprosyn, one of its prescription drugs for treating the pain and inflammation of arthritis, since 1976, according to Linda Thomas, Syntex's manager of media relations
The Times gleaned from "work papers" of the Hillary Clinton Health Care Task Force that "the board would collect information about prices, and it would establish guidelines as to a reasonable price for prescription drugs that have no therapeutic alternative
These compounds are a series of eight halogen-substitution nucleoside analogs, chemical kin to, but different from, the current anti-AIDS prescription drugs, AZT and ddI (dideoxyinosine
He sees the drug price issue targeted to retired people who, as a group, rely more on long- term prescription drugs, while the first trial balloon raised about child vaccines generated emotional appeal for the plight of youngsters
In the coming weeks and months, legislators will make increasingly painful political and financial choices on issues such as universal coverage, employer mandates, prescription drug benefits and new taxes