HKS Affiliated Authors
Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, HBS
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December 2, 2022, Audio: "With the US Inflation Reduction Act now law, many in Washington DC are saying that it’s provisions reducing pricing by $80 billion dollars annually in Medicare for drugs near the end of their patent life will not have any negative impacts on the US biopharma ecosystem. Enter Amitabh Chandra, the director of health policy research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Dr Chandra has been sounding the alarm of the unintended consequences of the many pricing bills that have been emerging from both the Trump and Biden Administrations, as well as the US Congress." Listen Via the Vital Health Podcast