Cook, Joseph P.; Hunter, Graeme; Vernon, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Generic utilization rates have risen substantially since the enactment of The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Hatch-Waxman) in 1984. In the year Hatch-Waxman was enacted, generic utilization rates were 19 percent; in contrast, today, the generic utilization rate is...