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Follow-on Biologics News Briefs - No. 11

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Senate Passes Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act On Christmas Eve, the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) by a 60-39 vote. Independent Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Bernard Sanders (I-VT) joined all 58 Democratic Senators in voting for the bill. All of the Republican members of the Senate -- with the exception of Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), who did not vote -- voted against the bill. The Senate bill, which was officially renamed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expanded from 2,074 pages as introduced last month to 2,407...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).