Is Health Reform Too Pharma Friendly?
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A Discussion Featuring Consumers, Payers, & Leading Policymakers October 14 at 9:30 AM Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, October 14, the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) will host a health care briefing at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. NCHC and PCMA are hosting the briefing to ask important questions about how best to make prescription drugs more affordable as part of overall health reform and whether proposals tilt too heavily in favor of the brand-name drug industry. With Senate and House floor debates on health reform expected soon, many questions remain as to how emerging proposals will reduce prescription drug costs. The briefing will provide a range of perspectives, including those from consumers, payers, and leading policymakers. Among the critical issues facing policymakers in the coming months are how best to create a regulatory pathway allowing for generic versions of high-cost biotech products and how to enhance access and lower costs in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. In addition to NCHC and PCMA, panelists include former U.S. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Thomas and patients from Michigan and Virginia. WHAT: NCHC, PCMA: Is Health Reform Too Pharma Friendly? WHO: MODERATOR: Nick Schulz, DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Editor, American.com Ralph G. Neas, CEO, National Coalition on Health Care The Honorable Bill Thomas, former Chairman, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Mark Merritt, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Rob Day of Michigan and Anne Collins of Virginia, Patients WHEN: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 09:30 AM ET WHERE: Kaiser Family Foundation Executive Conference Room 1330 G Street, NW Washington, D.C. RSVP: To RSVP, please email: jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com About the National Coalition on Health Care The National Coalition on Health Care is the nation's largest and most broadly representative alliance working to improve America's health care. The Coalition, which was founded in 1990 and is non-profit and rigorously non-partisan, is comprised of more than 80 organizations, employing or representing about 150 million Americans. Members are united in the belief that we need - and can achieve - quality affordable, and sustainable health care for everyone. http://www.nchc.org About the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) is the national association representing America's pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs administer prescription drug plans for more than 210 million Americans with health coverage provided through Fortune 500 employers, health insurance plans, labor unions, and Medicare Part D. www.pcmanet.org SOURCE National Coalition on Health Care National Coalition on Health Care, +1-202-213-7233, jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com
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