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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

Bill of Health

Despite having an outsized role in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, the federal government has generally not exercised any leverage in ensuring fair pricing and affordable access to these essential medical products.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. The study was written up by Beth Snyder Bulik in FiercePharma.

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