It is a milestone in a controversial process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans but is strongly opposed by drugmakers.
  • Krono@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful response, but the follow up question is obvious: why only 20 per year?

    There are over 19,000 FDA approved drugs, and 50 more are added each year. It’s going to take a couple hundred years to catch up at this rate.

    • WizEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It takes effort to do the RFQs and organize that fairly. That’s one RFQ every couple of weeks. The solution would be to hire a bunch more procurement officers to process more RFQs.

      They can at least target the drugs that make the biggest impact.