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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 27, 2010

Hidden Prize for Biotech

When President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care overhaul into law this week, he also handed over 30 million new paying customers to drug companies, boosting their stock prices.

By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

When President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care overhaul into law this week, he also handed over 30 million new paying customers to drug companies, boosting their stock prices.

But the new reform law gave the biotech sector an even bigger win: a $1 billion tax break and a 12-year exclusivity period on infusion and injection-type drugs, called "biologics" th...

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