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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.

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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.

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