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By Casey Ross StatNews February 16, 2018 As Washington’s interest in drug prices has spiked in recent years, a largely invisible industry has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are the middlemen who stand between manufacturers and consumers in the nation’s drug business. And they’ve been blamed by pharma companies for...
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Cancer is frightening in the abstract, and even more so when it becomes your reality. Three years ago, I was diagnosed at a relatively young age with late-stage colon cancer and have since gone through extensive treatments.
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"Californians have legitimate concerns about access to affordable drugs, but SB 17 does not address them. It is a bad deal for business and does nothing to benefit patients."
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Small and innovative biopharmaceutical companies across California are currently investing in the life-saving treatments of tomorrow, creating well-paying jobs throughout the state and spurring economic growth.
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"The California Assembly is considering Senate Bill 790 that would significantly limit both the amount and variations of benefits a pharmaceutical company can give to physicians."
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"By focusing on list prices [in SB 17], Sen. Ed Hernandez distorts true costs, failing to ask whether drug discounts and rebates reach patients, or are pocketed by middlemen."
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"The California Assembly is currently considering SB 17 that’s being deceptively sold under the label of drug pricing transparency." - Op-Ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune
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"SB 17 would mean less innovation, less economic growth and less investment in our world-leading bioscience sector. It’s bad medicine for California."
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Senate Bill 17, currently under consideration by the legislature, will not do anything to address the price that California consumers actually pay for medicine, and could jeopardize patient access to critical innovative medications.
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"SB 17 is unlikely to result in lower drug prices. But it is highly likely it could drive down investment in new companies, reduce employment and slow development of new cures and treatments."
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