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Jane Hamsher: Anna Eshoo's PhRMA Boondoggle: The Devil Is In Her Details
huffingtonpost.com - 30 days ago
Jane Hamsher: Anna Eshoo's PhRMA Boondoggle: The Devil Is In Her Details
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As a three time breast cancer survivor, I have a strong personal stake in health care reform. So when students from the American Medical Students Association wrote us at PublicOptionPlease.com and told me about their campaign to keep biologic "drugs of the future" available and affordable, I ...
Waxman to Eshoo: You’ve Got an “Evergreening Problem”
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 11/2/2009
Waxman to Eshoo: You’ve Got an “Evergreening Problem”
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — In her response to my article on her biologics bill, Anna Eshoo vehemently claims it doesn’t allow... “evergreening,” which would allow slight tweaks in drug formulas to grant drug companies endless monopolies and keep these ... (more) Waxman to Eshoo: You’ve Got an “Evergreening Problem”

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Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 30 days ago
Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — I had the best time last week for Halloween. I went to the Senate on behalf of... POP with the medical students from AMSA who first alerted me to the problems in Anna Eshoo’s (D-PhRMA) bill, which would grant monopolies on expensive, ... (more) Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop ...

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The Devil in Anna Eshoo’s Details
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 11/3/2009
The Devil in Anna Eshoo’s Details
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — The Devil in Anna Eshoo’s Details (more) The Devil in Anna Eshoo’s Details

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Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
Firedoglake — ... Eshoo’s bill will grant a 12 year monopoly to drug companies on biologic “drugs of the future,” whereas conventional drugs only have 5 years. And because of an “evergreening” provision (which Eshoo denies is included in her bill, but Henry Waxman insists is very much there when he condemned it) that monopoly can be extended by slight tweeks in the drugs. ...

Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits from Anti-Generics Amendment She Helped Eshoo Pass
Firedoglake — ... Anna Eshoo (D-PhRMA) may be the author of the language granting drug companies endless monopolies on biologic drugs, but she couldn’t have done it without the help of her good friend Jane Harman. A new letter from the Marcy Winograd campaign says: ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Friday (11/6/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page — ... that "Anna Eshoo (D-PhRMA) may be the author of the language granting drug companies endless monopolies on biologic drugs, but she couldn't have done it without the help of her good friend Jane Harman." Hamsher urges everyone to ...

The Algebra of Need: Cancer, Biologics, PhRMA
Firedoglake — ... Senator Sherrod Brown and Congressman Henry Waxman introduced legislation that would give the manufacturers of biologics a five-year window to reap the profits of exclusivity – and then open the door to generic competitors.  But they lost out to language from Senator Hagan and Rep. Eshoo, which would give the Genentech/Roches of this world twelve years of exclusivity – and then allows that exclusivity to be extended indefinitely, simply by changing to recommended dosage or administration of the drug. ...

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