Worries About Innovation Incentives Keep Some Generic, Patent Bills Out of HELP Legislation
Executive Summary
In a win for the branded industry, just one of the three amendments that caused the initial markup of the Senate Health Committee’s drug pricing legislation to be postponed got included in the package advanced to the floor.
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