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“Any suggestion that this legislation would allow companies to patent anyone’s DNA is simply false,” C4IP writes, adding that the ‘scaremongering’…ignores the fact that the human genome has already been published many times over and is already available for scientific use.”

Isolated human genes would be patentable, and the costs of medical diagnostic tests would jump under a recently introduced bill to revamp patent eligibility, panelists at an American Civil Liberties Union virtual briefing said Monday—a stance that former patent officials labeled “scaremongering.”

Medicare has a herculean task ahead of setting up an infrastructure to take on an entirely new function for the program — regulating how much it pays for certain medications, and penalizing drug makers that hike prices faster than inflation. With new responsibility comes new bureaucracy, new documents obtained by STAT show.

Medicare has a herculean task ahead of setting up an infrastructure to take on an entirely new function for the program — regulating how much it pays for certain medications, and penalizing drug makers that hike prices faster than inflation. With new responsibility comes new bureaucracy, new documents obtained by STAT show.