America’s pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies work hard to develop new medicines that help patients live longer, healthier, more productive lives. We recognize that the advances that our scientists and researchers make every day have the potential to change - and even save – lives.

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However, we also know that a medicine which sits on a shelf doesn’t help anyone, especially patients. Because of this, we support comprehensive health care reform that would provide all Americans with access to high-quality health coverage.
 
Recently, we released our Platform for a Healthy America to help spread the word about the importance of health care reform and to share with all stakeholders our ideas about what comprehensive health care reform could accomplish. The Platform for a Health America lays out our thoughts about how health care reform can and should expand access to health coverage while promoting affordability, value and quality of care.
 
Every day, we partner with other health care stakeholders and patient groups around the country to help spread the word about the importance of achieving comprehensive health reform. It remains to be seen what shape this health care reform will ultimately take, but we are working hard to ensure that it’s in the best interests of patients everywhere.

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Health Reform Dialogue

Washington, D.C. – Leaders from widely diverse national organizations today stressed their mutual commitment to reform of the nation’s health care system, calling it an “urgent, national necessity” that requires different stakeholders to cooperate in ways that they did not in previous reform efforts. The organizations, in identifying a number of policy approaches where they have reached consensus, pledged to work with lawmakers and each other to support the enactment of comprehensive reform this Congress.  > Read more





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Healthcare Summit Conversations

In January, PhRMA President & CEO Billy Tauzin and other national leaders participated in the first of 10 health reform “Summit Conversations,” sponsored by America’s Agenda: Health Care Education Fund. The Summit Conversations serve as forums for thought leaders to engage in lively conversation about key components of a reformed 21st century healthcare system. To hear Billy’s remarks, please click on the video clip below.

The Economic Benefits of Health Reform

While the benefit of healthcare reform to millions of Americans is clear, reforming our health system also would have a positive impact on America’s struggling economy by remedying fast-rising costs and helping patients who have lost health coverage. With this in mind, PhRMA recently partnered with the American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network, American Medical Association, Families USA, Service Employees International Union and Regence BlueCross BlueShield to sponsor a television ad that iterates the importance of health care reform for all Americans. To view the ad, please click on the video clip below.