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Earnings Szn Has Been a Bit of a Bust (So Far!) for Pricing and Policy Perspectives

  The Arc It’s a slow day today, so this is a brief Arc to prematurely flag an interesting trend: we’re a week or into pharma earnings season, and while
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NYT Explains How Net Prices Should Slim Down the Obesity Spending Conversation

  Inflection Point Inflection Point is usually for big, driving-the-day kind of news. So a story about the fact that the net price of obesity medicines being a ton lower
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Avalere Analysis Shows The Long, Expensive Road for CV Meds Post-IRA

Inflection Point If you’re into the IRA, it’s worth carving out a few minutes today to read this white paper from Avalere on the development path of cardiovascular medicines and
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New Kaiser Survey Shows How Out-of-Control Premiums Are (Though There is Some Good-ish News)

Hoo boy: there is a lot to unpack today. Let’s get started.   Inflection Point There may be no single document that is more useful for understanding where the U.S.
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The Government’s Approach to IRA Lawsuits Is Becoming Clear

  Inflection Point It’s not clear to me that anyone has noticed, but the government weighed in last night on the lawsuits from Johnson & Johnson and BMS challenging the
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A Must-Read Bloomberg Piece on Gene Therapy Highlights the Biggest Dilemma in Pharma

  Inflection Point The thorniest problem in biopharmaceuticals is the growing conflict between cost-effectiveness and budget impact. In other words, we increasingly have weapons against disease that are, objectively and
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It’s an Off Day for Curve, But Here Are a Couple of Links Anyway

No Curve today, but if you’re really jonesing for something to read, this Politico Pro piece — about the under-appreciated reality that the savings from Medicare price controls won’t necessarily
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Will the IRA Delay Market Entry for Cancer Drugs? NEJM Says No, But I’m Not Sure I Buy It

There’s a long Arc today on a detailed IRA-related argument that deserves a (more) detailed response. At least, it’s long by my standards (650 words), and I feel it’s fair
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Humira Is Maintaining Mammoth Market Share. Expect to Hear More.

I’ve decided to give Threads another go, given that Twitter is less and less useful (if not actually harmful), and no one wants to see me put up a LinkedIn
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Another Day, Another Set of Questions About Obesity-Med Coverage

Every day, I say: this is the day I’ll stop writing about obesity. And every day, at least for about the past week, I break that promise to myself. And
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