If Stop Subsidizing Big Pharma by Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones in The New York Times was intended to derail a pending White House announcement it failed spectacularly. Two weeks later President Obama unveiled “The Precision Medicine Initiative” in his State of the Union address.
However, the article did exploit a prominent platform to promote the idea that the only fair drug development system is one that the government controls to regulate prices. It must come as a shock for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to find itself attacked for funding a breakthrough drug promising to cure, not just treat the disease with its own money.
