Why were drugs not included in Medicare in 1965? And the answer is, because drugs didn’t matter. They were not all that good, and they didn’t do a lot…
We now see pharmaceutical care as the heart of treating someone; not so then.
Steven Grossman, Executive Director – Alliance for a Stronger FDA
It’s amazing how much progress there has been in pharmaceutical treatments in recent years; this is not something that should be taken for granted.
The quotation above was from the Brookings Institution panel on Hatch-Waxman at 40. You can watch the full video here.
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