FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 17, 2025 PILMA Urges Congress to Address IRA’s “Pill Penalty” Following Executive Action Bipartisan EPIC Act offers solution to protect patient access, pharmaceutical innovation, and skilled union construction jobs The Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association (PILMA) welcomes renewed attention to the harmful impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act’s so-called “pill penalty,” highlighted in […]
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The Feds must stop going easy on foreign paten thieves who hurt Pennsylvania | Opinion
Read the article here In the past few months, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have received more than a dozen patents, including for an experimental probiotic weight-loss therapy, a more durable and flexible solar cell and a new method of detecting and treating pancreatic cancer. But Pitt doesn’t have the ability — or the […]
PILMA Applauds Reintroduction of the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act
February 25, 2025 PILMA Applauds Reintroduction of the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act Bipartisan legislation would correct the “pill penalty” to safeguard union jobs and ensure continued innovation in small-molecule therapies The Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association (PILMA) applauds the introduction of the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act (H.R. 1492), a bipartisan […]
President McManus Letter on PBMs to Congress
November 21, 2024 Dear Speaker Johnson, Leader Jeffries, Leader Schumer, and Leader McConnell, As Congress returns to Washington for the remaining weeks of the legislative session, lawmakers have a critical opportunity to deliver meaningful reforms that will provide relief to millions of hardworking families struggling with high prescription drug costs. As a labor union representing […]
United Association President McManus Letter to HELP Committee
September 25, 2024 To:The Office of Senator Bernie Sanders, ChairU.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions332 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20510 The Office of Senator Bill Cassidy, Ranking MemberU.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions455 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.Washington, D.C., 20510 cc: Members of the Senate HELP Committee Dear Chairman […]
STATEMENT CONCERNING CMS’ Announcement of 10 Drugs Selected for 2026 Government Price Controls
August 13, 2024Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Maximum Fair Prices (MFPs) for 10 selected medicines to go into effect in 2026. PILMA reiterates our opposition to MFPs, which are simply government price controls on medicines in Medicare under the guise of negotiation. PILMA has long opposed price controls in […]