Two senators question risk management of clinical trial prediction markets
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Two Democratic senators, Angela Alsobrooks and Ron Wyden, sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding risk-management safeguards and internal data on prediction markets that let traders bet on clinical trial results and drug approvals. The lawmakers argue that allowing wagers on trial and drug success could undermine scientific process and create misaligned incentives for researchers, and they flagged concerns that patients’ decisions to enroll in trials and researchers’ or regulators’ access to nonpublic information could distort markets. The letter, first obtained by CNBC, asks HHS to detail how it oversees these markets and what controls exist against insider trading. The push matters because prediction markets are expanding into health-care outcomes, a domain where information is asymmetric and trial results can move billions in drugmaker value. What to watch next is HHS’s response and whether it triggers formal oversight or disclosure rules for clinical-trial contracts.
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Ron Wyden, Angela Alsobrooks, prediction markets, Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.