US Advertising Pushes Up British Drug Prices
There is often a bleat from the drugs companies and their right wing lobbyists that drug prices are high in the USA compared to other countries because of the need to make profits to develop new drugs....
View ArticleObama's 'Public' Risky Experimental Health Procedure-
The Finance Committee is discussing options for changing healthcare. We need to tell them to vote for single payer, the only solution known to work in country after country.Internationally, studies...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: No Public Option = Passive Eugenics, an Open Letter to...
It is with some despair that I watch the goings-on in the health care reform debate. I truly believe that this historical period is not only our best shot at real reform, but most likely our only shot,...
View ArticleForeign Single Payer Nations Now FORCING US To Adopt Single Payer TOO!
Its a basic tenet of economics, cost shifting.Say you are a multinational, a drug company, and lets just say you sell drugs to treat cancer.That used to be very profitable, everywhere, but now, they...
View ArticleOregon fury that Death Drugs were offered while Life Drugs refused by HMO
We've all heard variations on the story before, older patients pushed into hospice care or given death drugs when they were ill, but not terminally ill. But this woman was by some accounts terminally...
View ArticleAHIP 'concerned' about being forced to take uninsurables
In the discussion about how Americans can be forced to pay ever-increasing prices for increasingly dysfunctional health care they can no longer afford, an important aspect of the problem has been...
View ArticleNew York Times exposes drug company lobbyists WROTE many House speeches...
If anybody is still in doubt that the recent "health insurance reform" bill is a giveaway to the insurance and drug industries that leaves Americans without affordable health care, just take a look at...
View ArticleDrug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform
Well, well, well, lookee here ladies and gentlemen. Here we see how honorable and trustworthy Obama's good buddy, Billy Tauzin (and his friends) are after the big '80 billion' dollar savings deal.We...
View ArticleGroup of Senators Should Open US to Global Market Average Drug Pricing
What bothers me about drug prices is that it seems as if Americans are being charged more simply because the multinationals know they can get away with it here.Kaiser Health News has a story about how...
View ArticleDorgan Amendment Has White House, Reid, And PHARMA Scared
(From TWD)It has been well documented the deal the White House struck with big Pharma in order to preserve Pharma power in the drug market by keeping foreign pharmaceuticals out of the country in early...
View ArticlePHARMA Boss Tauzin Quits
(From TWD)This should give a lot of people some sort of glee.Billy Tauzin, the former Louisiana congressman, is resigning as president of the drug industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and...
View ArticleFuror Rising Over Premium Hikes, Politicians Spin of Causes
Sicker and sicker, poorer and poorer, BUT, in a perpetual state of "hope". Does that describe you? Well, why are you accepting that it wont be changed by Democrats? Why are you accepting that they will...
View ArticleTheir "Choice" Is a Lie. A Fresh Start that WORKS is there for the nation -...
"Q. What's the most important lesson that Americans can learn from the Taiwanese example? A. You can have universal coverage and good quality health care while still managing to control costs. But you...
View ArticleFools for Loopholes
Republicans hate earmarks, but they love loopholes. Even though loopholes are earmarks on steroids, Republicans and loopholes go together like big contributions and special favors in return for big...
View ArticleThree Easy Ways John Boehner Can Cut the Budget by A Half Trillion in 10 Years
Dear Congressman Boehner:We know you are in a tough spot these days. President Obama is pressing his election mandate to get a bill passed NOW that would eliminate tax hikes on the 98% of Americans...
View ArticleWA and OR: Save up to 75% On Prescription Drugs
I try to stay informed about local issues and politics - I scan the Seattle PI website every morning, and look at other sites - but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know about this program. Even when I...
View ArticleWhy we need a public sector pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity
A couple weeks ago, DKoser KS LaVida wrote an excellent diary on why The looming antibiotic crisis can't be solved by the free market. While the focus in that piece was on the unwillingness of Big...
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Big Pharma CEOs Rake in $1.57 Billion in Pay
For people who were blown away to learn recently that the 11 largest global pharmaceutical companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the last decade, here's another measure of the...
View ArticleThe Cost of Cancer Drugs Is Unsustainable
http://www.nytimes.com/...The above article, published in the New York Times April 25, references a paper showing that the costs of leukemia drugs are actually harming patients. The paper, authored by...
View ArticleThe Poor Can No Longer Afford Pneumonia Treatment in the U.S.
Yes, this is a scary headline. Almost sounds sensational. It isn't. It is a cold hard fact. At this moment, if you are counting your pennies, trying to scrape up enough to pay for a $4 drug at Wal-Mart...
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