Impact of the new US health-care-reform legislation on the pharmaceutical industry: who are the real winners?
Over the past two years, the US pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries were preparing themselves for passage of some type of health-reform legislation with a clear appreciation-and concern-about the enormous impact any law would be likely to have on the structure and viability of the research-based industry. Now, with final passage in March 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its companion "quick-fix" and budget bill, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, it is a good time to take a look at how the industry fared and assess how the various provisions of the health-care reform bill might affect the industry's long-term prosperity and growth.
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Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Christopher.milne@tufts.edu
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