Big employers from Cigna to PWC are dropping coverage of GLP-1s. Others, like Chevron, are making workers jump through hoops to get coverage...such as requiring multiple weigh-ins a month, meal-tracking on apps or sessions with an online health coach.
https://t.co/wrww3HTQrd
Donations to MAHA-affiliated PACs also came from regenerative farmers, vaccine skeptics, and alternative medicine practitioners.
(compounders, kratom supporters seem high on list too).
Eli Lilly has also pointed to its connection to the White House to ask for preferential treatment from the FDA. ...Lilly officials repeatedly referenced its drug pricing deal to push for a quicker approval decision, four FDA officials told STAT.
https://t.co/YboZ0Fg1mk
Downstream impacts: EPIC will lead to some drugs being selected 4 negotiation but then being subject to negotiation suspension b/c of generic entry. CMS may not be able to replace the Rx w/ another Rx, meaning Medicare loses out on savings from lowering the price of another drug.
who are these people who do not remember? also it’s been six years since the US acknowledged what was happening, but peak deaths were a few years after with omicron?
Hard to not see this as taking a huge ax to the 1962 Kefauver–Harris Amendments that required drug cos to prove efficacy.
"At minimum, the FDA could exercise leniency in enforcing against U.S.-based peptide makers unless they identified safety issues."
https://t.co/pgkcD8hb01
Pfizer threatened to hold Rx drugs hostage from France.
Don't let pharma pit the U.S. vs. the world.
Americans pay too much for drugs. But that is not Europe's fault, or responsibility. It is pharma's.
https://t.co/YSqiPpT6fr