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Kansas made huge discoveries with Congress’ help. Are they at risk?
By: Dan Leonard, Executive Director, We Work For Health Kansas is both a driver and a beneficiary of the most sustained period of growth...
5 days ago
Why Drug Pricing Reform Must Start with PBMs– Not Price Controls
By: Tom Kowalski, Co-Chair, We Work For Health Recent efforts to revive the so-called “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) drug pricing policy...
Jul 26
Now Is the Time to Maximize– Not Reduce– Investment in America’s Innovation Leaders
By: Candace DeMatteis, JD MPH, Policy Director, We Work For Health What do North Carolina’s incredible universities have in common, in...
Jul 14
Colorado will be affected by U.S. medical innovation policy
By: Candace DeMatteis, JD MPH, Policy Director, We Work For Health Smart policymaking and American ingenuity have combined to create an...
Jul 10
Don’t Throw Out 40 Years of Innovation by Dismantling IP Protections
While the 1980s is best remembered for its questionable fashion and cultural influence, two critical policies from early in the decade...
Aug 29, 2024
Biden's Attempts to Lower Drug Costs Are Sabotaging Biosimilar Competition and Are Destined For Failure
The FDA approved 55 new drugs in 2023 — up substantially from 2022's 37 approvals, and barely behind the all-time record of 59 set in...
Feb 13, 2024
The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments
The Biden administration may soon double down on one of its gravest mistakes. In 2022, it supported a petition before the World Trade...
Jan 31, 2024
The Bayh-Dole Act works. It’s not time to change it.
Forty-three years ago, a young U.S. Sen. Joe Biden voted for a transformative policy reform that subsequently catalyzed upwards of $2...
Jan 28, 2024
Biden Administration’s Threat to Pharmaceutical Innovation Endangers Lives
The idea that the government could forcibly seize ownership of a groundbreaking invention you created is chilling. But that is the...
Jan 26, 2024
Biden's Bayh-Dole Act proposal misuses 'march-in rights'
The Biden administration may soon gut the Bayh-Dole Act, one of our nation's most important and impactful laws that also supports nearly...
Jan 25, 2024
Medicare prescription price controls will hurt seniors
The inflationary spiral that drove prices up during the first years of the Biden administration has ended. That’s the good news. The bad...
Jan 25, 2024
Protect Future Discoveries By Rejecting The TRIPS Patent Waiver
Investment in U.S. biotechnology could be about to plummet, with major implications for future innovation. It all depends on the outcome...
Jan 23, 2024
Breaking the Law That Led to 7,739 Patents and 1,000 Startups in 2022 Alone
The Biden administration is out to break the law. It’s proposed a framework for federal agencies to impose “march-in” rights on patented...
Jan 22, 2024
A patent waiver is a bad deal for WA
If Washington state were a country, it would be the 26th-largest economy in the world. Last year, our economic output reached more than...
Jan 21, 2024
Biden Administration Policy Jeopardizes The System That Gave Us Gene Editing
The FDA just approved the first drug based on CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology. The medication treats sickle cell...
Jan 19, 2024
Price Fixing Never Works
Government is a terrible allocator of resources and equally bad at interfering with free markets. A great example is the ham-handed way...
Jan 18, 2024
Don't let geopolitics erode America's research engine
Patents and other intellectual property rights are at the heart of American innovation, and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Right now...
Jan 18, 2024
President Biden’s domestic technology seizure plan
Last month, the Biden administration released a radical proposal that — if finalized — would decimate American innovation across the most...
Jan 14, 2024
New patent proposal would kill innovation across industries
As the 2024 general election nears, President Joe Biden is making dramatic policy announcements in an effort to energize the voter base....
Jan 11, 2024
White House’s Drug Patent Plan Undercuts Research and Innovation
On Dec. 7, the White House announced a plan it claims will lower prescription drug costs. It centers on using a 43-year-old law—the...
Jan 9, 2024
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