NEW LETTER: Investors and executives urge the Congressional Budget Office to adopt changes to its modeling
CBO’s ability to correctly model investor decision-making is vital to our country’s ability to establish policies that achieve lasting biomedical affordability and continued innovation. In support of CBO’s efforts to improve its model, this letter emphasizes a number of economic and financial first principles, notably that investment is incentivized by expected returns based on discounted profits, not revenue, and adjusted for expected dilution from financings.
Sign-on letter: Why Fixing the IRA Matters to all of us
Under the drug pricing provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, small molecule treatments will face Medicare “negotiation” (price setting) that makes brand medicines functionally generic just 9 years after FDA approval. This policy will unwisely skew investment towards harder to manufacture biologics and away from small molecule treatments for diseases of aging. Without both kinds of medicines, we will all be worse off.
Public Comment: Protect patients when implementing the price setting provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act
No Patient Left Behind (NPLB) wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) urging fixes to its plan for implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act. NPLB suggested fixes that will lower out-of-pocket costs for beneficiaries and protect small molecule innovation.
Mifepristone ruling: biotech leaders defend FDA's autonomy and authority
400+ biotech and pharma executives voice support for the FDA's indispensable role in regulating new medicines. The letter warns that judicial orders undermining the decisions of the FDA would destroy the basic infrastructure necessary for continued medical innovation.
Public Comment: Exemptions of the Inflation Reduction Act fail to provide adequate protections
No Patient Left Behind (NPLB) wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) warning that the exemptions of the Inflation Reduction Act fail to provide adequate protections for orphan drugs and other small molecule treatments.
An investor analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act: What the bill will mean for future cures
33 investors whose funds manage $86B in capital detail the ways in which the imbalanced price setting provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act will warp investment in research and development and lead to fewer new cures.
Do more for patients, preserve innovation: Fix the Inflation Reduction Act
1000+ Investors, researchers, patients, & innovators urge critical fixes to Senate Rx Bill that can lower Medicare Rx deductibles, give the government greater power to set prices, and make sure biopharma research and development remains vigorous for both small molecule treatments and biologics.
Fix BBB: Ensure affordability & innovation!
Biopharma patient advocates, innovators, and investors continue to urge Congress to fix the proposed Build Back Better (BBB) legislation to improve patient Rx affordability and preserve biopharma innovation.
Lawmakers urged to support biopharma innovation and affordability
Investors, economists, academics, and industry executives urge reforms to lower out-of-pocket costs. Price controls, they warn, could cease biopharma investment and prevent future cures.