1. Patients Take a Stand
- P4AD Advocates Emma, Randall, Savanna, and Emily were proud to support Sen. John Cornyn’s bipartisan bill — the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act — in Fort Worth, Texas this week. Let’s keep the momentum going! — (Twitter)
2. ISO Insulin
- Patients are turning to the black market to afford insulin, a drug as vital to millions of Americans with diabetes as water. — (Reuters)
3. How PhRMA Lost its Mojo
- Pressure from patients to lower prescription drug prices has loosened the drug industry’s death grip on DC. Bipartisan proposals hold promise for meaningful reform in 2020 in this new era of drug pricing reform. — (The Wall Street Journal)
4. Time to Crack Down
- Seventy-eight percent of drugs associated with new patents are NOT NEW DRUGS. The poster child for patent abuse, AbbVie’s Humira, shows how far a drug maker will go to abuse the system at patient expense. Reform. Needed. Yesterday. — (The National Law Review)
5. The Harder They Fall
- A federal probe into price fixing in the generics industry has ensnared a senior executive at Novartis’ generics unit. — (FiercePharma)