Will ‘Build Back Better’ Spell Disaster for Pharma Innovation?

  • Nov 23, 2021

    The House of Representatives on Nov. 19 passed Democrats’ hard-fought, $1.7 trillion social spending bill, bringing it significantly closer to becoming law and ushering some of the most ambitious drug pricing reforms ever attempted.

    With the fate of the Build Back Better Act now in the hands of the Senate, the debate over how its drug pricing provisions will impact innovation in the life sciences industry has never been hotter — especially now that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has weighed in.

    To some industry observers, the bill’s most controversial attempts to rein in drug prices — including allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs with manufacturers and penalizing drugmakers if their list prices rise faster than inflation — are tantamount to sabotage of the pharmaceutical sector.

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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