drug pricing reform Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As President Biden pointed out in his State of the Union address to raucous applause, “I think a lot of you at home agree with me that our present tax system is simply unfair.” Two often overlooked aspects of unfairness in our tax code are complexity and double taxation, which would be made

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Over the past two years, policymakers and taxpayers have grappled with proposals to increase taxes as ideas introduced in the 2020 presidential campaign were transformed into legislation. This effort culminated in August with the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act. While many of the tax increases considered over the last two years were

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A centerpiece of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) as passed by the House last year was drug pricing legislation, which could be included in the next version of the BBBA, now rebranded as an inflation-control, climate, and deficit-reduction bill. While headline inflation is at an alarming rate, with the most recent 12-month

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares U.S. companies succeed and maintain their success by engaging in research & development (R&D) that results in innovative products and services reaching customers around the world. But U.S. policies that create tax or regulatory penalties, such as the drug pricing and excise tax proposal lawmakers are considering in the reconciliation package, can curtail