Merck Sues Over Law Empowering Medicare to Negotiate With Drugmakers
New York TimesAUG 2023
Merck is starting a barrage of lawsuits by greedy drug makers attempting to postpone implementation of the IRA drug pricing provisions before they completely cripple enforcement of the excise taxes that make the provisions work. Luckily, the drug companies don’t have a legal leg to stand on because they’re not entitled to sell their drugs to the government at any price they want and are free to not participate in Medicare.
Merck and other drug companies need to sue not just to prevent the government from extorting them into selling their drugs for less than market value and bankrupting them, but also to prevent the slow-rolling, socialist-style government takeover of the pharmaceutical industry. When the government takes over, innovation dies and leaves people without important, new treatments and medicines.