Strange Bedfellows: Generics Firms Join Big Pharma In Opposing Price Negotiation Legislation
Executive Summary
Concerns that Medicare drug price negotiation provisions in the Build Back Better legislation would upend the generic and biosimilar industries might resonate with legislators more than complaints from branded drug companies.
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