FierceBiotech says that the Health Care Reform draft includes a 12-year data exclusivity provision for biosimilars, thus following the Senate, and dealing a loss to Henry Waxman.
However, passage of Health Care Reform in the near future seems improbable, so the data exclusivity issue will still be open. The House Health Committee is solidly in favor of the longer period, though.
Also, FB's John Carroll notes:
At some point, rising costs may force lawmakers to actually get tough with drugmakers, and that would have an effect on biotech--the de facto R&D arm of the global drug industry. So far along, the industry has managed to dodge a bullet. But something tells me that the war over drug prices won't be ended by this reform bill.
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