The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has signed onto a letter to Congress, urging opposition to efforts to quash direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs…
Read MoreWhat began as a well-intentioned effort to help vulnerable patients afford medicines has morphed into one of the fastest growing and least transparent programs in American healthcare, and the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created a new cartoon to illustrate the problem…
Read MoreThe federal 340B drug pricing program was created with a simple and admirable goal: help vulnerable and low-income patients access discounted medications. But that’s not how the program has played out. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has produced a cartoon to illustrate this sad truth…
Read MoreThe House Judiciary IP Subcommittee recently announced a hearing to be held on June 4 on the ways that patents and other intellectual property rights relate to drug prices. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity sent a letter to subcommittee members, urging IP rights protection…
Read MoreAs America approaches its 250th birthday, we are reflecting not only on our history, but on the ideas and institutions that made the United States the most innovative and economically dynamic nation in the world. For two and a half centuries, America’s strength has rested on a simple principle: When people are free to create, compete, and trade, prosperity follows. That principle matters just as much today, and we have created an editorial cartoon to celebrate…
Read MoreFor years, Americans have been told that high prescription drug prices are simply the unavoidable cost of innovation. But a growing body of evidence suggests something else is driving costs higher: a deeply opaque system dominated by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), insurance companies, and pharmacy chains that increasingly operate under the same corporate umbrella. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created a new cartoon to illustrate the burden that the vertically integrated system has placed on patients, employers, unions, and taxpayers…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created a new editorial cartoon to illustrate a big “oops” by Congress: The 340B drug pricing program. Congress created the 340B program in 1992 with a genuinely noble purpose: help hospitals and clinics serving low-income Americans stretch limited resources and provide more care to vulnerable patients…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity joined a coalition of 40 organizations on sending a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives today, urging support the Abolish the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Act…
Read MoreThe 340B drug pricing program was created with a simple and worthy goal: help hospitals and clinics serving low-income and uninsured patients purchase prescription drugs at steep discounts so they could stretch limited resources and provide more care. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created an editorial cartoon to illustrate the issue…
Read MoreAhead of an expected U.S. Senate “vote-a-rama” on May 21, the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to member of Congress, urging them to reject proposals and amendments to impose “most favored nation” drug pricing policies…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has signed onto a coalition letter, along with 35 other organizations, urging Congress to Repeal the Jones Act…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity penned an op-ed for the Kentucky State Journal, saying that, as chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, U.S. Representative Brett Guthrie should stand against the Trump administration's "most favored nation" drug-pricing plan…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity, in collaboration with 93 think tanks and advocacy organizations across 42 countries, today released an open letter commemorating World Intellectual Property Day…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee; House Ways & Means Committee; and House Energy & Commerce Committee to encourage their support of the 340B rebate model under consideration by the Health Resources and Services Administration…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity recently signed onto a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer regarding discriminatory digital trade practices in Asia…
Read MoreTrade Alliance to Promote Prosperity comments filed in response to a U.S. Trade Representative Request for Comments on Section 301 investigation of forced labor were referenced in a recent USA TODAY article on tariffs…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today responded to a request for comments from the Employee Benefits Security Administration on Improving Transparency into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure pursuant to section 12 of President Trump's Executive Order 14273, Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions (HELP), in advance of the committee’s upcoming hearing on policy pathways to make medicine more affordable, to urge members to reform incentives, improve accountability, and ensure that the 340B program fulfills its intended mission of supporting vulnerable patients while controlling overall healthcare costs…
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created several editorial cartoons for newspapers, social media influencers, and bloggers to use when discussing drug pricing policies, specifically to educate about the perils of importing socialist pricing policies…
Read MoreApril 26 will be World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, the annual celebration of intellectual property rights. In new infographics, TAPP highlights the value of U.S. IP protections, noting their role in driving domestic innovation and maintaining a strong position globally…
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