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So What Does Jay Inslee Think You Deserve For Your Enbrel Investment?
Firedoglake —
... While I was searching for Henry Waxman’s comments about Anna Eshoo’s PhRMA boondoggle which will leave cancer patients in financial ruin just to pay for lifesaving biologic drugs, I came across a bizarre claim from her cosponsor Jay Inslee. He seems to believe that these companies need to be granted a monopoly on these drugs so that investors can recoup the money the risk for developing them: ...
Jane Hamsher: Anna Eshoo's PhRMA Boondoggle: The Devil Is In Her Details
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Henry Waxman concurs with them. Here's what he had to say about Rep. Eshoo's amendment during markup: ...
The Devil in Anna Eshoo’s Details
Firedoglake —
... Henry Waxman concurs with them. Here’s what he had to say about Rep. Eshoo’s amendment during markup: ...
FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/2/09)
Blue Virginia —
... "Setting the Record Straight on Our Health Care Legislation." It's extremely detailed, going methodically through the key assertions made by Eshoo. Check it out. 3. Jon Walker writes about "The Achilles Heel Of Health Reform: Risk Adjustment Mechanisms," saying that he is "truly frightened by the possible ramifications that potentially insufficient (and currently completely undefined) risk adjustment mechanisms will have on our health care system after reform." 4. Jane Hamsher blogs about Anna Eshoo's response to her article on Eshoo's ...
Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
Firedoglake —
... Generic drug makers told Henry Waxman that if Eshoo’s amendment passes, they’ll never manufacture these biologics profitably because the deck will be stacked against them. Which means market protection will keep the price from ever coming down. To these students, that means never being able to treat patients with the tools they need to heal them. ...
Biotech Industry Needs 42 Representatives to Try to Refute Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake —
... some of Eshoo’s details. She reminded Eshoo that no lesser legislative whiz than Henry Waxman has made the same argument Jane was making. She pointed out that taxpayers ...
Will PhRMA’s Fax Machines in the Senate Continue Eshoo’s Work?
Firedoglake —
... Eshoo’s Senate partner in patent pilfering is Kay Hagan. She offered up the same PhRMA-approved language that would give an “indefinite monopoly” (in the words of Henry Waxman) to PhRMA on lifesaving biologic drugs, which would prevent them from ever coming into generic form, also per Waxman. And we’re not talking about the difference between $10 and $50 here — we’re talking about $50,000 or $300,000 a year, costs that could forever put them out of affordability range even with insurance for most Americans, let alone third world country. ...
What to Do When Caught Spamming the Congressional Record? Raise Drug Prices!
Firedoglake —
... Maybe granting drug companies an “indefinite monopoly” (in the words of Henry Waxman) isn’t the greatest idea? Even if you think someone will wave a magic wand and make biologic drugs available to you, the $50,000 to $300,000 annual pricetag is going to put it out of the reach of countries already struggling to provide health care. ...
FDL Statement on Senate Combined Health Care Bill
Firedoglake —
... and inserted language into the Congressional Record in support of their endless monopolies on biologic “drugs of the future,” the Senate bill followed suit and included the Anna Eshoo-written language which prevents generic versions of vital lifesaving drugs from ever coming to market. ...
