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May282020

New MGA Report on a Medicare Shared Savings Demonstration for Biosimilars

May 28, 2020Filed Under: Analysis

Matrix Global Advisors (MGA) today released a new report, “Shared Savings Demonstration for Biosimilars in Medicare: An Opportunity to Promote Biologic Drug Competition,” by MGA founder and CEO Alex Brill. The report identifies a unique opportunity in Medicare Part B to boost biosimilar utilization through the establishment of a shared savings demonstration model administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center.

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Apr232020

COVID-19 Could Cause More Than 26 Million Hospitalizations

April 23, 2020Filed Under: News

The COVID-19 outbreak may be as severe as the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed an estimated 675,000 people in the U.S., according to a report by consulting firm Matrix Global Advisors.

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Apr232020

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

April 23, 2020Filed Under: Interviews

“We want the program to work and I think that sadly what we’re seeing is that the program is working quite well. And I say sadly because we are seeing tens of millions of people process through that system and we’re going to continue to see that I think for the next few weeks as the backlogs in certain states get worked through…”

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Apr222020

Small-Business Loan Fund May Run Dry Again. Is There Another Way?

April 22, 2020Filed Under: News

“‘That could help accelerate the rebound if we can just kind of mothball the economy and then turn back on the same economy with the same manager-employee relationship,” said Alex Brill, a resident fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.”

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Apr162020

New Analysis Situates COVID-19 Alongside 1918 Pandemic, Predicts 12 Million–26 Million Hospitalizations

April 16, 2020Filed Under: Press Releases

A new report released today by Matrix Global Advisors (MGA) finds that COVID-19 is likely as severe as the 1918 pandemic, the worst pandemic in the twentieth century. MGA evaluated COVID-19 data using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Pandemic Severity Assessment Framework (PSAF) and found that the current pandemic’s clinical severity (how sick the virus makes people) and transmissibility (how contagious the virus is) are the highest measurable by that tool.

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Mar252020

MGA’s Alex Brill Serves as a Panelist for “Biosimilars: Breaking Through the Barriers” Symposium

March 25, 2020Filed Under: Events

Alex Brill was one of the panelists discussing his “commitment to expand biosimilar use in the United States and how physicians and government officials are looking to help.

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Feb182020

Efforts to Combat E-Cigarette Misuse Could Backfire

February 18, 2020Filed Under: Op-Eds

Recent news about e-cigarette misuse has fueled both public misperception and policy responses that are likely to have unintended consequences. As the US vaping market continues to evolve, policymakers face the tricky challenge of safeguarding the potential for positive public health outcomes from e-cigarettes, which offer a lower-risk alternative to traditional cigarettes, while ensuring reasonable protections against youth use.

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Jan132020

New MGA Paper Investigates the Economic and Budgetary Effects of the BLOCKING Act

January 13, 2020Filed Under: Analysis

This report examines the BLOCKING Act and why it is a misguided attempt at promoting generic drug competition.

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Jan102020

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

January 10, 2020Filed Under: Interviews

In anticipation of the December jobs report number being released later in the morning, Brill joins the morning news program to discuss his predictions that the number “will be right on the quarterly trend.”

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Nov142019

MGA’s Alex Brill on Liberty & Justice for All

November 14, 2019Filed Under: Interviews

“I advocate and support a carbon tax, but not just blindly, not just any carbon tax. It is critically important that the carbon tax be revenue neutral. That at the time at which this policy is put in place its done in a matter in which the revenues expected to be generated from the carbon tax are used to reduce other taxes that are more distortionary. This is what we would call the principles of basic tax reform.”

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