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Pharma Still Hoping To Block US Medicare Price-Setting Legislation

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

While Democratic politicians – and most voters – want to see drug pricing negotiations introduced in the US for the first time, pharma leaders still believe a deal on out of pocket costs will be agreed instead.

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Pharma is looking for a deal to ensure that drug pricing controls are removed from the legislation. • Source: Alamy

The head of AstraZeneca’s US operations believes that legislative plans to allow the US government to negotiate drug prices with the industry are far from being a done deal, despite the determination of Democratic political leaders to make it happen.

That is what Ruud Dobber, who is also president of AstraZeneca’s biopharmaceuticals business unit (which covers all non-oncology medicines) said in an interview with our sister publication Scrip last week...

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