This week, three publications in the healthcare policy and regulatory affairs industries referenced MGA’s recent report on the potential savings from accelerating US approval of complex generics.
DetailsMGA founder and CEO Alex Brill recently appeared on The Hill event Virtually Live to discuss how complex generic medical alternatives can impact and potentially enhance the American healthcare system. In this interview, Brill talks with The Hill moderator Steve Clemons about the MGA report outlining the potential savings from accelerating US approval of complex generics.
DetailsMatrix Global Advisors (MGA) today released a new report, “Potential Savings from Accelerating US Approval of Complex Generics,” by MGA founder and CEO Alex Brill.
DetailsAlex Brill recently joined Garrett Ballengee, founding executive director of the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy, on their podcast “Forgotten America.” In this fascinating interview, Brill discusses the economic impacts of the opioid crisis in America, noting that the epidemic is no longer just an Appalachian problem.
DetailsFour years ago, many commentators lamented that Hillary Clinton fell short of winning the Electoral College by less than 80,000 votes. “You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Sized Football Stadium,” read a headline in Vanity Fair. Now, it is not just Hillary Clinton that lost by a hair.
Details“‘The nursing home COVID crisis in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut from the beginning of the pandemic, things are different and way better there. But as the pandemic is spreading throughout the country, we’re going to see it pop up in other nursing homes’ Brill said.”
DetailsFrom both a public health and economic perspective, the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on our country. More than 210,000 people have died, more than 435,000 individuals have been hospitalized, and more than 10 million jobs have been lost nationally. The US economy was 10 percent smaller in June than it was last December and is not projected to fully recover until some point in 2021 at the earliest.
Details“‘I think it creates confusion for the negotiators. Republicans on the Hill are looking for a signal from the president. They are looking for leadership on this, and he’s oscillating,’ Brill said.”
Details“The report finds that extending patents on just those five drugs [Prilosec, TriCor, Suboxone, Doryx, and Namenda] will result in a cost to the U.S. health care system of $4.7 billion annually—money that in theory could have been saved if the drugs had been available in a generic form.”
DetailsWe recently had the honor of testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee on the effects of inaction on coronavirus fiscal legislation. One of us was invited by the Republicans and the other by the Democrats. The basis of the hearing was the Heroes Act, a $3 trillion bill that passed the House in the spring on a party line vote with about $1 trillion in tax cuts and $2 trillion in new spending.
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