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Arrangement, and are you guaranteeing what is the price of the drug when are you saying you are only going to get paid x if you reach a cure level or certain level of adherence. Theres some interference there, and its used as an excuse for those types of arrangement or getting out of those arrangements by pharmaceutical companies. The other is the fda approves the drug if it works. And they dont necessarily approve it saying whether it works better than things that have previously been approved or whether it doesnt work better than thing previously approved. And that can create some friction w...

You talked about sitting across the table negotiating these kinds of arrangements. As you would sit across the table talking to somebody about a valuebased arrangement, one of the issues that ken identified was what if the payoff is way down the line . Would your health plan integrated Delivery System, youve got to pay the bill for the drugs today. How do you factor in a benefit that may be ten, 20, 50 years down the line . Who is that rebate check going to go to someday when that benefit crops up . Somebody enrolled in kaiser today may be someplace else, cigna, wherever else tomorrow. How do ...

And coming up, more on the recent health and Human Services forum on pharmaceutical innovation and drug costs. Up next, senators from medicare and medicaid acting administrator andy slavit and purchasing strategies for the pharmaceutical industries. This includes manufacturers, employers, consumers, Health Insurance providers and government officials. Once again, if you will all take your seats well get started on the final panel of the day. Where as promised, well devote our discussion to outcomes based purchasing, what is the potential for those, what are the obstacles and how do we get to b...

Deciding the prices . Corporate chutzpah. Stahl raise the price, period. Just a question of how brave they are and how little they want to end up in the New York Times or on 60 minutes. Stahl tonight, the story of the doctors revolt against the high price of cancer drugs. Almost there, almost there. Cooper meet chaser. She may be the smartest dog in the world. They say she has a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words and knows the difference between nouns and verbs. What is Science Learning from mans best friend . Youll be surprised. When dog and humans make eye contact, that actually releases wh...

Deciding the prices . Corporate chutzpah. Stahl raise the price, period. Just a question of how brave they are and how little they want to end up in the New York Times or on 60 minutes. Stahl tonight, the story of the doctors revolt against the high price of cancer drugs. Almost there, almost there. Cooper meet chaser. She may be the smartest dog in the world. They say she has a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words and knows the difference between nouns and verbs. What is Science Learning from mans best friend . Youll be surprised. When dog and humans make eye contact, that actually releases wh...