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Ranier Simons and Shabbir Safdar

Ranier Simons and Shabbir Safdar

Ranier Simons and Shabbir Safdar

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Ranier Simons - Patient-Centered Drug Pricing Policy Director; Shabbir Safdar - Executive Director, Partnership for Safe Medicines

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Join date: Aug 24, 2026

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Aug 31, 2026 ∙ 6 min

PDABs march on, burning money, while failing to help patients.

Prescription Drug Affordability Boards have been marketed as an easy fix for drug costs — but after six years, $28 million spent, and 394 hours of meetings, not a single PDAB has delivered savings for patients or their states. The data demands accountability.

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