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Small Business Owners Deliver Mixed Messages To Capitol Hill
As more specific legislative language emerges on health care, "small business organizations are encouraging members to make their views known through e-mails, letters, phone calls and personal visits" to members of Congress, but "the message is a decidedly mixed one," Kaiser Health News reports. "Small business, a powerful constituency in every congressional district, no longer speaks with one voice on health care. Many of the bigger and more powerful groups that represent small businesses, including the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have long been allied with Republicans and are lobbying hard against the public option and the employer mandate." But newer, less conservative groups, including the Main Street Alliance, are advocating for those same hot button issues.
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Emergent BioSolutions Receives FDA Approval Extending Shelf Life Of BioThrax (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) To 4 Years
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced that its flagship product, BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed), has been granted a shelf life extension from 3 to 4 years by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Based on this approval, Emergent has achieved a contract milestone warranting a payment of approximately $30 million for doses previously delivered to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) under the terms of the company"s existing BioThrax procurement contracts with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This amount is expected to be recognized as revenue in the second quarter of 2009. In addition, FDA approval of 4-year expiry dating results in an immediate price increase for the future delivery of BioThrax doses under the current contract as well as under the follow-on multi-year contract, valued at $405 million, for the delivery of 14.5 million doses of BioThrax.
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Health Care 101: Key Challenges In The Debate

Several news organizations had explainers detailing the ongoing the health reform debate. The New York Times created an online primer, highlighting key proposals currently under discussion: the individual/employer mandates, and a public insurance plan and marketplace. The Times includes pros/cons as well as explanations of the possible ways to pay for an overhaul and the process by which the three current health care plans will merge into one final piece of legislation (Hossain, 6/18). The Associated Press has a Q&A on why high health costs are harmful to the economy. Health care "accounts for about one-sixth of the entire economy," totaling "about $2.5 trillion." The AP explores how "rising health care costs affect workers and businesses," "the impact of 50 million Americans having no insurance," and whether "the health care system must be fixed first to repair the economy" (Johnson, 6/18). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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