Trump's next executive order will give big pharma more control over raising...
The one thing that this Trump administration has been able to uncover for Americans is how big the actual “swamp” of corporate-controlled corruption can be. The New York Timesreports that Trump has a...
View ArticleThe Trump plan to lower drug prices has turned into a Trump giveaway to the...
After a campaign of bleating about high drug prices for Americans and how he was going to do ... things ... about that, it turns out that the team of drug industry advocates and insiders Donald Trump...
View ArticleNeoliberal Dems think that us Midwesterners enjoy a failing healthcare system...
The Washington Post is reporting that a group of neoliberal Democrats are now trying to push back against efforts by progressives to make meaningful reforms to the failing health care system in this...
View ArticleBig Pharma Now Using Tribal Law To Protect Their Patents
Allergan is the maker and patent holder for Restasis which is used to treat chronically dry eyes. It is a billion dollar drug for the company and, along with Botox, accounts for around 30% of the...
View ArticleA Medical Doctor Gives Four Reasons Why US Healthcare is so Expensive
Nicholas Fogelson, MD, is a practicing surgeon who blogs at Academic OB/GYN. In a series of short blog essays he has outlined four items that he sees as key contributors to the rise of healthcare...
View ArticleVT-Sen: CREDO Action Builds Momentum For Bernie Sanders' Bill To Let Medicare...
Received this e-mail today from CREDO Action:Donald Trump spent most of 2016 insisting he would attack the pharmaceutical drug companies behind skyrocketing prices. But ever since he seized office, he...
View ArticleTrump's drug company price hiker gets his nomination hearing
The former president of Eli Lilly's U.S. business, Alex Azar, faced a hostile group of Democrats in his confirmation hearing Tuesday. Tapped by the current occupier of the Oval Office to be Secretary...
View ArticleWhy Would Joe Jimenez, Former Novartis CEO, Pay Cohen $400k And Then Resign?
For those not familiar with money-making at a drug company like Novartis, it’s all about patents and when they expire, ie when generics can eat their profits. And in 2016/2017 Novartis was already...
View ArticleVT-Sen: Bernie Sanders Calls On Congress To Let Dept. Of HHS Negotiate Prices...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I. VT) re-election campaign:During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to take on the outrageously high prices of the...
View ArticleDespite Trump's promise to lower drug prices, costs for Viagra, blood...
One of the big problems facing our healthcare system is the rising cost of medicine. The rising costs of medicine are dictated by “the market.” The “market” is a made-up construct that must continue to...
View ArticleNearly 30 pharmaceutical companies plan to raise their prices in 2019
Hey, as long as weed stays the same price, I’ll somehow get through the next two years. But this is terrible news for a lot of vulnerable people.From Reuters:Novartis AG (NOVN.S) and Bayer AG...
View ArticleThe House Holds a Hearing. On Health Care, Not Hate or Hillary.
Someday, the US will have a rational health care system. What will trigger such an event is as yet undetermined, but truth and outrage in the halls of the House of Representatives is one step.Today,...
View ArticleDrug prices, pharmaceuticals' political influence emerge as flash point for...
One in the long list of non sequiturs and incoherent thoughts presented in the State of the Union mess Tuesday night was this: "The next major priority for me, and for all of us, should be to lower the...
View ArticleVaginal Estrogen: No Price Too High? or Dreams of a Canadian Pharmacy
I'm a health care provider who has been shocked by the meteoric rise of the cost of vaginal estrogen preparations, which alleviate intense menopausal vulvovaginal dryness and irritation. This is a...
View ArticleMedia Mangle: Barr cleared " Trump of "Obstruction" on CNN townhall w/ Booker
CNN has been holding townhalls with each of the various Democratic candidates. That is a great public service. Don Lemon is a good media person. This is not to say he is bad at his job. None of us are...
View ArticleTrump’s Bent Knee to Pharma
As reported in a Apr 18 Wash Post article by Christopher Rowland, Trump is actively blocking a way to control runaway drug prices. Amazingly there is a legal provision in the Bayh Dole Act that allows...
View ArticleAhh- the gentle caress of the "free market's" invisible hand [oh-and paying...
Just one more case of socialization for the free loaders at the top of the chain and vulture capitalism for the rest of us- A study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch of Public Health comparing how other...
View ArticleOut-of-pocket costs for multiple sclerosis medications have quadrupled during...
New research published in JAMA Neurology on Monday reports that the annual cost of “self-administered disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis more than quadrupled” between 2006-2016, raising...
View ArticleDo Big Pharma Profits = Better Medicine?
A common refrain from the Pharma companies is that without sky high US drug prices they could not afford to innovate and produce new cures and improved medical treatments. Patients will die if they...
View ArticleMoscow Mitch says 'nyet' to cutting into drug companies' massive profits and...
The Medicare prescription drug plan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced Thursday coincided with the release of an Axios analysis showing that the health care industry "continued to rake in...
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