Sep62018

New MGA Paper Identifies Steps to Reducing Barriers to Biosimilars

September 6, 2018Filed Under: Analysis

In a new paper, MGA discusses why the biosimilars market in the United States is not more developed and what steps can be taken to boost competition for biologic drugs. The paper identifies barriers to biosimilars by four categories, related to reference product manufacturers, biosimilar manufacturers, policy, and stakeholder education and awareness. Among the strategies to overcoming barriers are more physician and patient education, competitive biosimilar pricing, action by employer-sponsored health plans and private payors to encourage biosimilar utilization, and continued FDA efforts to support the budding market.

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Sep52018

New MGA Study Estimates Lost Savings from Misuse of REMS and Restricted Access Programs

September 5, 2018Filed Under: Analysis

A new study from MGA examines the practice by brand drug manufacturers of using Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) and other forms of restricted access to keep generic manufacturers from obtaining samples needed to develop generic drugs. MGA estimates that this misuse blocks $13.4 billion in generic savings annually, an estimate that has grown nearly 250 percent since MGA’s 2014 analysis of this issue.

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Aug182018

MGA’a Alex Brill on WXTK’s ‘Something More with Chris Boyd’

August 18, 2018Filed Under: Interviews

In the ‘Something More with Chris Boyd’ interview, Brill discusses the state of the economy.

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Aug72018

Happy Birthday, FDA Tobacco Plan!

August 7, 2018Filed Under: Op-Eds

Just over a year ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a bold new plan to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels and encourage the development of non-combustible nicotine products. Key to the FDA’s approach is an acknowledgement of both the continuum of risks associated with various nicotine delivery mechanisms and the opportunity for innovative products to reduce the health risks associated with tobacco consumption

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Jul92018

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

July 9, 2018Filed Under: Interviews

“…. There are specific issues with regards to our trade relationship with China. But not only with China, with other of our major trading partners around the world. We are better off with good intellectual property laws. We are better off with lower tariff and non-tariff barriers. We need a process that takes us from where we are forward and not backwards, of course.”

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Jul62018

MGA’s Alex Brill on White House Chronicle

July 6, 2018Filed Under: Interviews

Brill said, “If we take a market-based approach, which we think is a conservative strategy to addressing climate change, we want to use price signals, and a carbon tax is a price signal. It negates the need for…the regulatory toolbox that’s currently being deployed…and allows the market to find…the most efficient way to get emissions down.”

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Jun262018

Supreme Court Ruling on Online Sales Tax Sets Level Playing Field

June 26, 2018Filed Under: Op-Eds

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair last weekempowers states to establish a level playing field for the taxation of goods sold by in-state and out-of-state sellers. The court overturned two precedents, dating back to 1967 and 1992, that imposed an artificial physical presence rule on state sales tax systems.

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Jun212018

Discussing South Dakota v. Wayfair: Brill on CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell’

June 21, 2018Filed Under: Interviews

On CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell,’ Alex Brill discusses the US Supreme Court’s ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. to require out-of-state sellers to collect the same sales tax that in-state resellers must collect.

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Jun192018

What is Behind that Record-Breaking State Unemployment Rate Data?

June 19, 2018Filed Under: Op-Eds

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the US unemployment rate in May 2018 was 3.8%, the lowest since April 2000. During the past 50 years, the US unemployment rate has been this low only 10% of the time.

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Jun182018

Charitable Giving and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

June 18, 2018Filed Under: Analysis

This paper investigates how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act affects household charitable giving in the United States. We find that the law will reduce charitable giving by $17.2 billion (4.0 percent) in 2018 according to a static model and $16.3 billion assuming a modest boost to growth.

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