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Chapter 8

Confronting the Threat to US Biomedical Innovation

Chapter 8 Overview The Drug Pricing Maze Why Price Controls are Problematic Drugs Going Generic IS the Built in Price Control Things that Don't Work Borrowing From Other Countries International Reference Pricing Drug Reimportation Seizing IP: March-in Rights Seizing IP: TRIPS Waivers Check Your Understanding Quiz 8.1
Things that Might Work
Lowering OOPs and the Good Parts of the IRA Guaranteed Contracts/Forward Contracts Getting the International Community On Board Forward contracts for Antibiotics: The Pasteur Act Generalized Cost Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) Check Your Understanding Quiz 8.2 The Best 8% of Our Healthcare Dollar Chapter 8 Summary OPTIONAL] Additional Resources The Beginning of the End: Wrapping up our course Looking Back First Responder Survey Sign Up to be a First Responder
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Things that Might Work

Next, let’s take a look at other proposals to alter the status quo of how society incentivizes innovation while making medicines affordable to patients:

Lowering out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and Guaranteed/Forward Contracts.

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