Why were drugs not included in Medicare in 1965? And the answer is, because drugs didn\u2019t matter. They were not all that good, and they didn\u2019t do a lot\u2026<\/p>\n
We now see pharmaceutical care as the heart of treating someone; not so then. <\/p>\n
Steven Grossman<\/a>, Executive Director \u2013 Alliance for a Stronger FDA <\/p>\n It\u2019s amazing how much progress there has been in pharmaceutical treatments in recent years; this is not something that should be taken for granted. <\/p>\n The quotation above was from the Brookings Institution panel on Hatch-Waxman at 40<\/a>. You can watch the full video here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why were drugs not included in Medicare in 1965? And the answer is, because drugs didn\u2019t matter. They were not all that good, and they didn\u2019t do a lot\u2026 We now see pharmaceutical care as the heart of treating someone; not so then. Steven Grossman, Executive Director \u2013 Alliance for a Stronger FDA It\u2019s amazing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}