Event tomorrow: Maintaining America ’s leadership in access and innovation

Each year,biopharmaceutical companies invest nearly $100 billion in the discovery of new treatments and cures. Despite a challenging research and development (R&D) process, consistently high levels of investment in biopharmaceutical innovation help support more than 4million jobs across the economy and secure America ’s position as the global leader in the development of new medicines, with over half of all new medicines coming from the U.S. At the same time, long-standing market-based policies have enabled the U.S. health care system to provide patients with access to more innovative medicines far earlier tha n other countries.
Source: The Catalyst - Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Research and Development Economic Impact Medicare Research and Investment Source Type: news