Mehta Analysis: Can Trump Trigger Triple Cascade?
Trump says the biopharma industry can no longer depend on the higher US profit margins with his initiative to peg US drug prices to global norms. The US president needs second and third initiatives to be successful: Enable the regulators and biopharma industry to rationalize R&D, and to eliminate selling costs that collectively account for one-half of the industry, writes Viren Mehta, founding partner of Mehta Partners LLC. The US Administration’s proposal to peg Medicare Part B payments to foreign…