Low Income Subsidies (LIS in Part D)

Patient health and well-being depends on the uninterrupted availability of lower-cost generic and biosimilar medicines. Moreover, as patients live longer the importance of a robust and sustainable generic and biosimilar medicines industry becomes only that much more important. Policymakers must act quickly to ensure continued saving and market-based competition, as well as prevent shortages, for future availability of affordable medicines. This requires:

The ninth annual Generic Drug Access and Savings in the U.S. report demonstrates the vital role that generics and biosimilars play in the United States’ healthcare system. For the first time, the third-party researchers who conducted the study analyzed the differences between brand and generic abandonment behaviors and found some surprising results.