02/04/2020
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"Is there something that we can do in Congress to make it easier to get to a generic label from a brand name label after a drug goes off the patent?"
"So the copay, because of the way the pharmacy benefit managers work and the other intermediaries, the copay that my constituents see, or the check that they have to write out, or sometimes they have t..."
"That is 20 years from when the invention occurs, and like you said sometimes you are only left with a few years to try and recoup the investment."
"90 percent of the prescriptions that are written and filled in the United States, roughly, are for generic drugs."