Weekly Policy Update: Key Takeaways from the 2022 Midterm Election
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 11/11/2022
In Colorado State races, Democrats prevailed across the state. In fact, Democratic leaders expanded their political power and won by wide margins in all the statewide races. They increased their alrea...
Learn MoreRemembering Colorado House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, an Advocate for Colorado’s Life Sciences Ecosystem
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 11/06/2022
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Representative Hugh McKean, the Colorado House Minority Leader. Our team and board are deeply sad...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Update: Recent State Budget Forecasts
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 10/28/2022
CBSA monitors budget forecasts to assess how the economy, overall employment, and state revenue forecasts could impact CBSA’s State Policy Priorities and our Policy + Advocacy strategy for the upcomin...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Update: President Biden Signs New Drug Pricing Executive Order
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 10/21/2022
President Biden signed an Executive Order on Friday, October 14th directing Health and Human Services (HHS) to explore additional actions to lower prescription drug costs. This order is on top of...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Blog: CBSA Engages on Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET)
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 10/14/2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently working to develop a new rule that could provide Medicare patients faster access to innovative, lifesaving, and life-enhancing medi...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Blog: CBSA Continues Engagement on the WTO TRIPS Waiver
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 10/07/2022
In a few months, member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will decide whether to expand the TRIPS waiver to include COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics. Colorado BioScience Association is...
Learn MoreVictories for Innovation: Congress Reauthorizes the SBIR/STTR and User Fee Programs
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 09/30/2022
CBSA celebrates policy victories for Colorado's life sciences community and America’s innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Congress reauthorized critical SBIR/STTR and User Fee programs. Without...
Learn MoreWeekly Update: Biden Administration Cancer Moonshot Initiative; Bi-Partisan Majority Support in Congress - Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act (S.1873/ H.R. 1946)
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 09/23/2022
President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative On the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s “We Choose to Go to the Moon” speech, President Biden gave an update on his Cancer Moonshot Initiative, whic...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Blog: Colorado BioScience Political Action Committee Fuels Policy + Advocacy Engagement and Impact
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 09/09/2022
The Colorado BioScience Political Action Committee (CBSA PAC), a bipartisan state political action committee, provides opportunities to educate candidates for the state legislature about our life scie...
Learn MoreWeekly Policy Blog: August Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board (PDAB) Meeting
By: Colorado BioScience Association Date: 09/02/2022
On August 26, CBSA and our partners participated in the state Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board (PDAB) meeting, which was open to the public. The PDAB was created in 2021 when the state leg...
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