Sally Pipes
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President, CEO, Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy @PacificResearch. Author: The World's Medicine Chest
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2009
Novo slashed prices to compete with Lilly. That’s the power of the market: lower costs and better drugs. Price controls do neither — they kill innovation and hurt patients in the long run. https://t.co/F7rInUztfl
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Great new @MakingMedPod episode with @SenThomTillis diving into drug pricing reforms, MFN, investment in U.S. biotech, regulatory certainty, and the forces shaping American innovation:
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The new U.S.-U.K. trade deal makes Britain’s NHS pay more for cutting-edge drugs in exchange for tariff relief. It’s about time other countries pitched in their fair share. https://t.co/u8cJi63FlV
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⛑️NOTHING TO SEE, JUST A “THROWAWAY” MICROCAP. Forbes quietly connects the dots: NextNRG ($NXXT) plus Amazon ( $AMZN ) plus Kroger ( $KR ) in one feature on energy and the food chain. According to Forbes, NextNRG (NXXT) already provides fueling services and trucking support for
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Price controls don’t just hit drug companies — they hit patients. After the IRA, funding for new small-molecule drugs dropped almost 70%. That means fewer cures and fewer options when we get sick. https://t.co/8V0ILPPDA7
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Medicare can’t save money by buying cheap medical gear that harms patients. A smarter bidding system must weigh real-world costs — including worse outcomes from low-quality equipment. https://t.co/LYdOqMfl6x
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California wants a 5% wealth tax to fund health care. If you want to know how that ends, look at Norway: its rich fled, revenue plunged, and the tax raised a fraction of what was lost. https://t.co/lJ0GleN44C
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States say they’re using "their own money" to give Medicaid to illegal immigrants. But that’s only possible because the federal government sends them matching dollars — and they inflate those dollars with clever tax tricks. It’s a funding loophole, not generosity.
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Americans deserve market-based reforms that make health care affordable again. Tune in to hear a few ideas: https://t.co/DFIuim69cd
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Republicans should put together a health package that includes 340B reform. Experts have been warning about lax 340B oversight for years. https://t.co/Kq2CYGzqQl
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Price-controls and "most-favored nation" won't lower drug costs as fast as free-market competition does. Markets, not mandates, bring results. https://t.co/F7rInUztfl
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Worried drug patents keep prices high? Look closer. "Monopolies" last just 12-15 years, and that clock starts before the drug even launches. Then generics flood in: first one drops prices by 39%, the next another 15%, and the fall keeps going. https://t.co/8V0ILPPDA7
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96% of @USGAO's fake applications got approved for ACA subsidized plans. Now we know why insurance giants are scrambling to extend the credits. https://t.co/Vx4kHcje4C
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Trump’s first three Cabinet meetings feature more press questions and answers than all of Biden’s
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"A 'Billionaire Tax' Will Only Worsen the Golden State's Health System," writes PRI's @SallyPipes. Read more here: https://t.co/qRitc1Ep9M
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If we want affordable drugs, we need more competition -- not more government. More competition = companies forced to cut prices and improve products. https://t.co/F7rInUztfl
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Trump wants to lower drug prices. One simple way: cut out the middlemen and let companies sell directly to patients. https://t.co/w8eeq7pxLx
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History is clear: competition drives prices down sustainably. Coercive government tactics don’t — and they harm innovation along the way. https://t.co/F7rInUztfl
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Excellent column from @AdamMossoff: anti-patent groups are selling Congress a story built on bad data. Generics dominate 90% of prescriptions, U.S. prices are lower than peer nations, and FDA/USPTO records don’t match activists’ claims. Weakening patents won’t lower costs — it
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Patents aren't the villain -- they're the engine behind the GLP-1 revolution. We're already seeing fierce competition push prices lower: Wegovy's price has dropped more than 85% since it was first released. Undermining patents would only mean fewer future breakthroughs for
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Novo and Lilly just slashed prices on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs that recently cost over $1,000 a month. What happened?
Next generation weight loss drugs are prohibitively expensive for many in the US who would benefit from taking them—and may remain so, thanks to the phenomenon of patent thickets. Paige Huffman reports https://t.co/v0vN1oECE7
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California's wealth tax proposal looks like a bold fix — until you remember the rich can simply pack their bags and leave. What happens to the state's tax base then? https://t.co/lJ0GleN44C
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Auditors at @USGAO submitted 24 fake applications for subsidized ACA plans. 23 were approved. And Democrats still want to extend the subsidies anyway. https://t.co/r9bOJSuPeq
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