And the release occurred on a Web site run by the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association (PhRMA).
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ( PhRMA), a major Obamacare proponent, reacted cautiously.
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PhRMA spokeswoman Jenni Brewer referred inquiries about the letter to RetireSafe but confirmed that the groups collaborate.
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In response, the industry's high-powered Washington trade group known as PhRMA has hired a high-profile new leader.
He said he decided to take the job with PhRMA because of his recent bout with intestinal cancer.
But it would behoove PhRMA to look at those costs with the view to how they would be perceived.
Finally, PhRMA was stepping up to the plate and providing the real story.
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PhRMA woke up and came up with a brilliant plan to stop ASC in its tracks and it worked.
Billy Tauzin of PHRMA got the boot even before the bill was signed.
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Why not put together a group of PhRMA scientists who were key members of the teams that produced these drugs?
This open letter to PhRMA CEO, Mr. John Castellani, expresses these concerns and offers suggestions on how to improve things.
Avorn says PhRMA's lobbying efforts were so vast and so intense that the result is now written into the law.
For example, you periodically put out press releases about PhRMA member pipelines and the impressive number of compounds in clinical development.
One would think that PhRMA would be using the GSK and Pfizer examples as a way to help move the industry forward.
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The ad is jointly sponsored by Families USA, a pro-reform group, and by PhRMA, the trade association of the prescription drug industry.
In addition, it would be powerful if you could stand up and say that PhRMA commits to 100% reporting of clinical trial results by 2015.
Health Care for America Now Executive Director Ethan Rome said his group believes the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association, PhRMA, was actually behind the RetireSafe letter.
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But it's only about one-third of what PhRMA has spent this year lobbying members of Congress face to face on the gritty details of health care.
The pharma industry was miffed by the marketer-proof lid being closed on that bottle, so IMS Health and drug trade organization PhRMA sued the state of Vermont.
But it would be great for PhRMA members to adopt a policy that would minimize the trips and trinkets and focus more on the science and content of such meetings.
Now, you and I appreciate the hard work that has gone into the discovery of these compounds and the hopes that PhRMA companies have that these compounds will become important medicines.
It really is way past time for the decades-old claims of PhRMA to be held up for careful scrutiny using independent analysis such as that carried out in the GAO report.
On the Medicare prescription drug agreement, is there still -- is there some glitch in that agreement, or still are negotiations going on and would that be why PhRMA wasn't represented there today?
"We don't see eye to eye on everything on health care reform, " says Families USA director Ron Pollack, the man who revived Harry and Louise and who enlisted PhRMA's help with the ad.
Finally, last Monday, PhRMA responded to this situation.
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Second, doctors do not have a lobby on scale with AHIP or the AHA, or PhRMA. We were invited to stand for the pics when the ACA was signed, but were told to keep our mouths shut and wait outside when the sausage was being made.
In a concerted effort to raise awareness with legislators, key trade associations such as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, and the American Academy of Family Physicians launched Prescriptions for a Healthy America.
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Mr. RON POLLACK (Executive Director, Families USA): I think that anybody who knows the story of Billy Tauzin's leadership in the House of Representatives on the Medicare legislation and how it really toed the line of the pharmaceutical industry to their tremendous benefit and then not too long thereafter he becomes president of PhRMA, I think people will feel that this is inappropriate.
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