2015: year of the biosimilar

In March 2010, US President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, into law. It was preceded in 2009 by the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), which introduced a shortened pathway for approving biosimilars, medicines that have been developed to be close to existing biologic drugs.

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