CEI Joins Coalition Letter Opposed to Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Final Rule
Introduction
On behalf of the undersigned federal and state-based organizations, we write to express our opposition to the interim final rule to implement the Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model under section 1115A of the Social Security Act. We request you withdraw the rule.
The rule forces physicians, patients, and providers into a mandatory demonstration under the Obamacare Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and ties the prices paid for medicines in Medicare Part B to the prices in foreign countries with socialized health care systems.
The proposal imports foreign price controls into America’s healthcare system. This will harm medical innovation and the development of new medicines. It will threaten high-paying American manufacturing jobs and do nothing to stop foreign freeloading. Instead, it will move the United States closer to a system of government-controlled healthcare.
JESS LANDER
The U.S. Trade Representative recently announced an expansion of tariffs on European wines, food and spirits, effectively delivering what could be a fatal blow to restaurants who are already struggling to keep their lights on during pandemic shutdowns and restrictions.
The first round of tariffs implemented in 2019 on certain wines, foods and spirits from France, Germany, the U.K. and Spain was the Trump administrationâs response to longstanding E.U. subsidies made to French aircraft company Airbus, putting Boeing at a disadvantage.
This latest retaliation, which places tariffs on Cognac and Armagnac and expands the 25 percent tariff to include wines from France and Germany at 14 percent alcohol and above, was announced with little warning and went into effect on Jan. 12. The tariffs even apply to purchases made prior to Dec. 31 that have not yet reached the U.S., leaving businesses with an unexpected and expensive tab.
Decanter French wineries to get aid as new US tariffs bite
More French and German wines have been hit with retaliatory US import tariffs this week, as France’s government promises fresh aid for winemakers and an alliance of American retailers and merchants looks to president-elect Joe Biden to solve the impasse.
US trade officials pressed ahead with plans to impose a 25% import tariff on French and German still wines above 14% abv this week.
Cognac and other grape-based spirits from France and Germany were also targeted, as part of an expansion of products targeted in the long-running US-EU trade dispute over aerospace industry subsidies.
The Trade Alliance announced first in July that it was undergoing plans to shift their focus to becoming a Chamber. “We were just an organization of businesses that were just networking,” said Tyler Fahlman, the alliance’s president. “We felt that with the amount of work we were putting into being a trade alliance, we might as well take it the next step become a Chamber so we have access to more information and support from the provincial Chamber.” Fahlman, who owns Fountain Tire, moved to Melfort as the old Chamber was shutting down. He said seeing this “shocked” him.
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