The first link is a summary article. The second is about the legislation itself.
The first link is a summary article. The second is about the legislation itself.
The thing that gets me is the list of groups opposing it. I really want to know why all those veterans groups and medical groups are against it. What the concerns are and what the evidence or reasoning supporting those concerns are. I know at least one overriding reason why the drug companies oppose it and am not sympathetic. The others, though, I really would like to understand.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-proposition-61-prescription-drug-prices-20160915-snap-htmlstory.html
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_61,_Drug_Price_Standards_(2016)
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-proposition-61-prescription-drug-prices-20160915-snap-htmlstory.html
The thing that gets me is the list of groups opposing it. I really want to know why all those veterans groups and medical groups are against it. What the concerns are and what the evidence or reasoning supporting those concerns are. I know at least one overriding reason why the drug companies oppose it and am not sympathetic. The others, though, I really would like to understand.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-proposition-61-prescription-drug-prices-20160915-snap-htmlstory.html
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_61,_Drug_Price_Standards_(2016)
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-proposition-61-prescription-drug-prices-20160915-snap-htmlstory.html
Because a major way for-profit drug company CFOs would meet Prop. 61's requirement that the medication price the state and veterans pay is the same, is by raising the price of drugs for veterans. That would, after all, fulfill the strict letter of the law under Prop. 61.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't completely eliminate the discounts veterans get - the ones that the drug companies can't get around are what the authors of Prop 61 were counting on - but it could gut a lot of them. Drug companies would certainly do their best.
It's one of those "exact wording" problems that has both the CMA and veterans groups concerned - I think with good reason.