Steve Usdin
Washington Editor at BioCentury
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biocentury.com | Steve Usdin
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & LawTrade associations and biopharma CEOs are mobilizing to oppose the drug pricing policy By Steve Usdin, Washington Editor Pharmaceutical industry executives and lobbyists are in “Defcon 1,” the highest state of alarm, over President Donald Trump’s push to include a “most favored nation” policy for Medicaid drug purchases in budget reconciliation legislation.
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zephyrnet.com | Steve Usdin
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & LawBy Steve Usdin, Washington EditorBiopharma CEOs and lobbyists are confident that the budget reconciliation bill will include relief from the Inflation Reduction Act's so-called "pill penalty," but are scrambling to fend off White House efforts to insert "most favored nation" drug pricing provisions. Even if MFN is excluded from the reconciliation bill, the push to ensure that some U.S. drug prices fall below those in other industrialized nations isn't going away.
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biocentury.com | Steve Usdin
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & LawGOP appears willing to fix the ‘pill penalty,’ Trump is pushing for Medicaid most favored nation also By Steve Usdin, Washington Editor Biopharma CEOs and lobbyists are confident that the budget reconciliation bill will include relief from the Inflation Reduction Act’s so-called “pill penalty,” but are scrambling to fend off White House efforts to insert “most favored nation” drug pricing provisions.
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biocentury.com | Steve Usdin
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & LawBIO campaign adds industry voice to pro-vaccine chorusPublic health groups, industry trying to counter flood of anti-vaccine messaging — including from Trump administration officials By Steve Usdin, Washington Editor May 1, 2025 11:03 PM UTC“What’s more important? Is it the flag you raise or the hands you hold?
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biocentury.com | Steve Usdin
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & LawNew HHS vaccine policy could make it impossible to launch improved versions of vaccines By Steve Usdin, Washington Editor HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary are translating anti-vaccine rhetoric into action, announcing policies that could make it impossible to update or launch improved versions of marketed vaccines. Kennedy is justifying the policies with lies and misstatements that target vulnerable communities....
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RT @BioCentury: Biopharma industry confident of IRA fix, hoping to dodge MFN, writes BioCentury's @SteveUsdin1 https://t.co/apTM0VaquL
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