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California plan would upend drug prices, though obstacles abound
9 January 2020 - Newsom wants to create state-run wholesaler, pool buying power. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
California eyes selling its own brand of generic prescription drugs to battle high costs
9 January 2020 - California would become the first state to sell its own brand of generic prescription drugs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Generic makers will appeal ruling that allows California to proceed with law banning pay-to-delay deals
3 January 2020 - A federal judge dealt the pharmaceutical industry a setback by declining to block a new California ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2019
California’s new transparency law shows staggering rise in wholesale drug prices
11 October 2019 - Drug makers fought hard against California’s groundbreaking drug price transparency law, passed in 2017. Now, state ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2019
California is first US state to ban pay-for-delay deals
8 October 2019 - California has become the first US state to ban the pharma industry practice of paying rivals ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
HIV prevention drugs will be available without a prescription in California
7 October 2019 - California will expand access to HIV prevention drugs by allowing pharmacies to offer the medications without ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2019
San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda counties join Governor Newsom to lower drug prices
16 May 2019 - San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alameda counties joined on Thursday Governor Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2019
New California governor tackles drug prices in first act
8 January 2019 - Hours into his new job, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that could ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
Eli Lilly is defying California law with its insulin price hikes. A law maker calls its actions ‘offensive'.
9 August 2018 - Seven months after a controversial California law took effect requiring advance notice of planned price increases ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2018
Drug makers cancel price hikes after California law takes effect
11 July 2018 - State law signed amid ongoing pressure on U.S. drug prices. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 May 2018
Single payer health care in California: here’s what it would take
25 May 2018 - If wholesale opposition to President Trump is one litmus test for progressive Democrats, another — as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2018
Single-payer health care would take years to develop in California, legislative report says
13 March 2018 - As progressive activists clamor for California to push ahead a sweeping single-payer health plan, a legislative ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2017
Drug industry group sues to stop California drug price law
9 December 2017 - The trade group representing U.S. drug makers on Friday said it has a filed a lawsuit to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2017
California just passed a law to rein in drug prices. Here’s why it’s unlikely to make much difference.
24 October 2017 - Over bitter protests from the pharmaceutical industry, California this month enacted a law that requires drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2017
Can the California law on drug pricing transparency make a difference?
10 October 2017 - On Monday, California adopted a law that requires drug makers to explain and justify price hikes, making ...