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Posted 16 September 2016 - 01:15 AM
I am starting to get phone calls, see ads, and hear media reports about Proposition 61.
It would require the state to negotiate drug prices that are no more than the VA pays.
So far, I have only heard extreme opinions on both sides that are not based on any substance.
I would like to hear what the other Californians on this board are thinking about this important issue on the November ballot.
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Posted 16 September 2016 - 05:39 AM
I'm not in California but I had to research this out of curiosity. Anytime Big Pharma is pouring money into defeating something, you know it can only be good for the people.
Pharma has taken note. Companies like AbbVie ABBV 0.02% , Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and others have already poured more than $70 million into defeating the initiative—by far the most money being spent on any California referendum this year.
http://fortune.com/2...-prices-pharma/
It appears to only affect medicaid, not prices private insurers would pay.
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09/2016 PCR: 0.052%
12/2016 PCR: 0.036%
03/2017 PCR: 0.029%
06/2017 PCR: 0.028%
09/2017 PCR: 0.025%
12/2017 PCR: 0.018%
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Posted 11 October 2016 - 08:38 PM
Big Pharma Spending Big to Defeat California Drug Price Measure - https://goo.gl/611zcd
The battle over a California ballot measure to put a stop to pharmaceutical price gouging is heating up as the election draws near, with Big Pharma pitting itself against consumer watchdogs, parents of sick children, and nurses.
Big Pharma has spent nearly $90 million to defeat Proposition 61, which "would require all prescription drugs purchased by the state of California to be priced at or below the price paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which pays the lowest price of any federal agency," as the Los Angeles Daily News writes.
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02/2010 Gleevec 400mg
2011 Two weakly positives, PCRU, weakly positive
2012 PCRU, PCRU, PCRU, PCRU
2013 PCRU, PCRU, PCRU, weakly positive
2014 PCRU, PCRU, PCRU, PCRU (12/07 began dose reduction w/each continuing PCRU)
2015 300, 250, 200, 150
2016 100, 50/100, 100, 10/17 TFR
2017 01/17 TFR, 04/18 TFR, 07/18 TFR 0.0012, 08/29 TFR 0.001, 10/17 TFR 0.000
2018 01/16 TFR 0.0004 ... next quarterly PCR 04/17
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In hindsight I should have started my dosage reduction two years earlier; it might have helped minimize some of the longterm cumulative toxic effects of TKIs that I am beset with.
longterm side-effects Peripheral Artery Disease - legs (it's a bitch); continuing shoulder problems, right elbow inflammation. GFR and creatinine vastly improved after stopping Gleevec.
Cumulative Gleevec dosage estimated at 830 grams
Taking Gleevec 400mg an hour after my largest meal of the day helped eliminate the nausea that Gleevec is notorious for.
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Posted 12 October 2016 - 06:14 AM
If that were to pass, Big Phama also has the ability to block it using the courts. Big Auto/Big Oil teamed up to defeat California's electric/hybrid laws back when Bushy was pres and they used the courts to win in the end over the will of the people (not surprisingly).
08/2015 Initial PCR: 66.392%
12/2015 PCR: 1.573%
03/2016 PCR: 0.153%
06/2016 PCR: 0.070%
09/2016 PCR: 0.052%
12/2016 PCR: 0.036%
03/2017 PCR: 0.029%
06/2017 PCR: 0.028%
09/2017 PCR: 0.025%
12/2017 PCR: 0.018%
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