Tag: Big Pharma
Skyrocketing drug prices under scrutiny as pharma CEOs summoned to Senate...
"A life-saving drug is not effective if the patient who needs that drug cannot afford it."
‘For shame’: Pfizer to charge $1,390 for lifesaving Covid drug that...
"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.
How a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in...
A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines.
The 2024 election could be Big Pharma’s reckoning
It’s clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.
Sanders-led panel exposes Big Pharma for ‘ripping off’ Americans with publicly...
"It is unacceptable that half of new prescription drugs invented with the help of NIH scientists now cost more than $111,000," said the HELP Committee chair, urging action by the Biden administration to cut prices.
Senate investigation shows how GOP law enabled Big Pharma’s ‘extreme’ tax...
"Big Pharma gets us coming and going—they charge Americans sky-high prices and they pay absolute rock-bottom taxes, not anywhere near a fair share."
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of...
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."
‘Deeply sinister’: emails reveal Big Pharma pushed Twitter to silence vaccine...
"At a time when online mobilizations were one of the few forms of protest available to the public, Twitter was seemingly asked to shield the powerful from criticism," said one campaigner. "That should worry all those who care about accountability."
And this year’s ‘Pharma Greed Awards’ go to…
"Pharma execs are celebrating their own greed with a round of back-slapping awards and swigging champagne."
Hypocrisy abounds as PPP loans to 1% forgiven, while Biden seeks...
Word has leaked out that the Biden administration is about to enter negotiations with Big Pharma, for the express intent of shifting the cost of COVID vaccines and lifesaving antiviral medications, to the patient.
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