Driving down the Cost of Drugs : Battling Big Pharma in the Statehouse.
Castellblanch, Ramón.
Driving down the Cost of Drugs : Battling Big Pharma in the Statehouse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (186 pages)
Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch1-David, Goliath, and Prescription Drugs -- ch2-How Drugs Got So Expensive -- Getting Patent Privileges -- Making the FDA a Partner and the Rise of the Blockbusters -- Fighting Government Oversight and Exploiting the Blockbusters -- The Blockbusters' Toll on America -- ch3-Vermont Raises the Cry -- The Road to S 300 -- 1999 -- S 300 -- Epilogue -- ch4-As Goes Maine -- Maine Background -- Low-cost Drugs for the Elderly -- Senate Leadership Commitments to Supporting Price Controls -- Leinonen -- Northeast Legislators -- LD 2599 -- Industry Response -- Public Support to the Rescue -- King-Pingree Negotiations -- Maine Rx -- PhRMA v. Concannon -- Maine Rx Plus -- Postscript -- ch5-PhRMA Tries Stopping State Action -- PhRMA Political Spending in the Early 2000s -- Post-Maine Rx State and Local Legislation -- PhRMA's Turn to Congress -- Industry Building Its Economic Power -- Advocates' Continued Fighting after Part D -- ch6-So Goes California -- California Overview -- 1999-2003 -- 2004: Legislative Leadership Taking the Stage -- The Rise of Tension between the Governor and Legislative Leadership -- 2005 -- 2006 -- Making a Deal -- Implementation Delayed -- ch7-Politically Organizing for Access to Medicines -- Hearing Voters' Righteous Indignation -- Allying with Powerful Progressive Organizations -- Politically Isolating the Pharmaceutical Industry -- "Framing" after Righteous Indignation -- Inferences beyond Fighting for Medicines -- Implications for US Health Policy -- Appendix: Useful Websites on Health Care Policy and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.
No detailed description available for "Driving Down the Cost of Drugs".
9781626373365
Prescription pricing--California.
Electronic books.
RA401.A4 -- .C378 2012eb
368.38
Driving down the Cost of Drugs : Battling Big Pharma in the Statehouse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (186 pages)
Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch1-David, Goliath, and Prescription Drugs -- ch2-How Drugs Got So Expensive -- Getting Patent Privileges -- Making the FDA a Partner and the Rise of the Blockbusters -- Fighting Government Oversight and Exploiting the Blockbusters -- The Blockbusters' Toll on America -- ch3-Vermont Raises the Cry -- The Road to S 300 -- 1999 -- S 300 -- Epilogue -- ch4-As Goes Maine -- Maine Background -- Low-cost Drugs for the Elderly -- Senate Leadership Commitments to Supporting Price Controls -- Leinonen -- Northeast Legislators -- LD 2599 -- Industry Response -- Public Support to the Rescue -- King-Pingree Negotiations -- Maine Rx -- PhRMA v. Concannon -- Maine Rx Plus -- Postscript -- ch5-PhRMA Tries Stopping State Action -- PhRMA Political Spending in the Early 2000s -- Post-Maine Rx State and Local Legislation -- PhRMA's Turn to Congress -- Industry Building Its Economic Power -- Advocates' Continued Fighting after Part D -- ch6-So Goes California -- California Overview -- 1999-2003 -- 2004: Legislative Leadership Taking the Stage -- The Rise of Tension between the Governor and Legislative Leadership -- 2005 -- 2006 -- Making a Deal -- Implementation Delayed -- ch7-Politically Organizing for Access to Medicines -- Hearing Voters' Righteous Indignation -- Allying with Powerful Progressive Organizations -- Politically Isolating the Pharmaceutical Industry -- "Framing" after Righteous Indignation -- Inferences beyond Fighting for Medicines -- Implications for US Health Policy -- Appendix: Useful Websites on Health Care Policy and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.
No detailed description available for "Driving Down the Cost of Drugs".
9781626373365
Prescription pricing--California.
Electronic books.
RA401.A4 -- .C378 2012eb
368.38