The Biden administration has made reducing health disparities a major goal of its health care agenda. This paper provides analysis of whether and how biopharmaceutical innovation has historically reduced disparities in health outcomes and how reducing such innovation...
Despite the large disease burden imposed by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), little quantitative evidence exists on the aggregate value stemming from innovation slowing the progression of the disease. To fill this gap, this paper uses the existing evidence base to assess the...
This paper reviews the evidence covering the impact of biopharmaceuticals on the level and growth of total health care costs. The primary source of spending in health care is on labor, such as doctors, nurses or assistants, which makes up over 70% of overall spending,...
In February 2022, the Biden Administration aimed to reignite the Cancer Moonshot through its proposed federal budget and stated that one of its objectives is to reduce cancer mortality by 50% over the next 25 years. Currently, there is already a very large amount of...
This issue brief reviews the evidence-base to assess the impact of HR 5376 on drug innovation and patient health. A large academic literature estimates the effect of future drug revenues on R&D spending and finds that on average that a 1 percent reduction in...
