It is a milestone in a controversial process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans but is strongly opposed by drugmakers.
It takes effort to do the RFQs and organize that fairly. That’s one RFQ every couple of weeks. The solution would be to hire a bunch more procurement officers to process more RFQs.
They can at least target the drugs that make the biggest impact.
Thanks for the thoughtful response, but the follow up question is obvious: why only 20 per year?
There are over 19,000 FDA approved drugs, and 50 more are added each year. It’s going to take a couple hundred years to catch up at this rate.
It takes effort to do the RFQs and organize that fairly. That’s one RFQ every couple of weeks. The solution would be to hire a bunch more procurement officers to process more RFQs.
They can at least target the drugs that make the biggest impact.