Lilly chief scolds Germany for new pharma rules

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"That may be true. But what Lechleiter is really getting at is compromise. As the incoming chairman of PhRMA, Lechleiter will be meeting with German officials over the next week to propose some ways the new pharma-payment rules might be tweaked to be more industry-friendly. "t's vitally important to find ways within that framework to allow patients and the [healthcare] system to benefit from pharmaceutical innovation," he said.

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I hope he is not trying to negotiate kickbacks. That would be very un-Lilly.
 






Nice try...

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Germany was in many ways the cradle of the pharmaceutical industry, which then grew into an interconnected, world-wide enterprise responsible for many of the 20th century's great strides against disease. But today, German policies place the pharmaceutical industry's future progress at risk, bringing unintended consequences not only for investment and employment but, more importantly, for patients. The way out of this potentially tragic irony begins with dialogue between industry and government in Germany—and a commitment to returning the country to its status as an exemplar in the pursuit of human health.

The company I lead, like all pharmaceutical companies, depends ... on vast improvements by progressive governments to improve access to costly medicines by imposing price controls by greedy pharmaceutical firms whose main interest is to provide fat dividends for fat cats on Wall Street primarily.
 






PharmaPhailure

How fitting léchéleiter should become president of this organization in the same year he presides over masslayoffs, shipping jobs to chin(di)a, and record patent losses. Yay! GoPharma!
 




































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