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The current pharma business model is unsustainable

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In pharma, growth depends on new products with hefty price tags when over 80% of voters want lower costs for their prescription drugs. Biogen’s failure should be a warning to other pharma companies. They relied so much on a new drug that they tried to market a product with bad science behind it.

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What do future healthcare CEOs look like?

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QUICK READ: The compensation for pharma CEOs is starting to be reported and it’s off the charts. Pharma, PBM, and health insurance CEOs earn hundreds of millions of dollars to do one thing; make their companies a lot of money. drug spending by 9 percent” What about taxpayers? Bob Bradway of Amgen bagged a $20.1

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Shareholders versus patients: Who is more important?

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Milton Friedman A newly approved drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease is expected to become a multibillion-dollar expense for Medicare. By one projection, spending on the drug for Medicare patients could end up being higher than the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency or NASA. There are no measurements on patent centricity.

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