"Congress needs to expand Medicare to cover prescription drugs and leverage the government's purchasing power to negotiate fair prices," she said.
Proposals that the U.S. government should buy medicine in bulk from the drug companies, leveraging the purchasing power of everyone on Medicare and Medicaid, frighten the entire pharmaceutical industry.
He wants to use Medicare to try to lower the federal budget deficit and "limit excessive payments for prescription drugs by leveraging Medicare's purchasing power".
Peer influence is powerful, which explains why the most progressive drug prevention campaigns leverage peer attitudes in order to promote healthy behaviors among today's teens.
Community coalitions that engage in multiple community sectors, and drug courts that leverage the criminal justice system with treatment must be brought to scale.
Their goal is to enrich their drug development pipeline, leveraging their expertise in regulatory submission, reimbursement, and commercialization of product.
The research agenda should focus on developing appropriate technology for antimicrobial drug resistance detection, leveraging novel technologies that have emerged recently.
Unless Congress uses this leverage with drug companies, good prescription drug coverage for people with Medicare will remain incredibly expensive.
Moreover, their estimate assumes that the U.S. would continue to pay much higher prices for drugs than other nations, despite the fact that a U.S. single-payer system would have much greater negotiating leverage with drug companies than other national health insurance schemes.
Maine Rx, as the state calls its law, seeks to use the federal Medicaid law as leverage with drug manufacturers and wholesalers to obtain negotiated discounts on prices paid by some 325,000 state residents who lack insurance coverage for drugs.
Additionally, we showed that leveraging drug-target candidates with phenotypic data is very useful to improve the identification of drug-targets.
