http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/12/biologics-legislation/ Adventures of a superhero on his journey through chronic pain and debilitating inflammation Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/12/biologics-legislation/#comment-2043 Wren Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:56 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=8960#comment-2043 Grrrr. I hope our intrepid leaders in Congress pay attention to what that bill will mean for their less wealthy, unemployed and uninsured constituents who have RA. If they don’t, they sure don’t deserve our support. I can understand the biotech and venture capital industries wanting to get their profit from these wildly expensive drugs. But for 12 years. That’s reprehensible. Sigh.

]]> http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/12/biologics-legislation/#comment-2041 Pollyanna Penguin Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:56:17 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=8960#comment-2041 I suppose the reasoning behind it is that if the drug companies don’t get the protection then it isn’t worth their while developing the drugs in the first place. (Not that I agree with that – just figure that’s the reasoning.) At the mo biologics are so hard to produce anyway that generics will struggle to make them, so no extra protection required. (Added to which, if they get protection then folks like me in the UK National Health Service have very little hope of ever being allowed to have them!)

]]> http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/12/biologics-legislation/#comment-2040 jodi Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:06:13 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=8960#comment-2040 what??? that’s just crazy. ugghhh. why do things have to get “buried” like that.

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