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Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board

First upper-payment limit - tied up in court.

Drug Policy / Harm ReductionGovernor / ExecutiveLiberty check

C · 14/24

1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)

Cap what payers reimburse to cut drug costs.

2 · The realist counter-case

Critics question authority and access effects.

3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats

First UPL set on Enbrel (2024); first suit dismissed on standing; no clean estimate it cut patient cost yet.

4 · Liberty check

State price authority vs. manufacturer freedom.

5 · The real tradeoff

Honest incomplete - mechanism untested on patient cost.

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