Med-tech lobby AdvaMed unveiled a series of
proposals asking the U.S.
government to support the medical device industry.
Medical device industry lobby AdvaMed proposed six
policy initiatives, including trade, tax, payment, regulatory and research
policies that ask government to make innovation in the life sciences a top
priority.
AdvaMed unveiled its “Competitiveness Agenda”
during a visit to orthopedic giant Stryker Corp.’s (NYSE:SYK) Kalamazoo, Mich.
manufacturing facility.
“We know medical technology has a bright future,”
said AdvaMed president & CEO Stephen Ubl. “The question is: Will that
future be made in America—or
somewhere else? Without the right public policies in place to provide a level
playing field between the U.S. and
foreign competitors, America’s
leadership will be lost.”
The lobby called for the While House to establish
an office of medical innovation, which would be responsible for overseeing
existing and proposed government policies that may affect medical innovation...
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