Tag: pharmaceutical companies

Report reveals big pharma middlemen inflating drug prices, reaping billions in excess revenue.

Shocking profiteering in healthcare system continues to harm patients nationwide.

An analysis of the $6 billion in grants distributed by PhRMA and its member companies.

“The investment in these vaccines, as for most drugs, has really been underwritten by the taxpayer, by the government.”

"Because every single developed country in the world guarantees healthcare as a right except us. Except the United States."

"Teva and its co-conspirators embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States."

“The solution here is not to replace markets, but to fix them. The Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act will introduce more competition into the prescription drug market, and bring down prices for consumers.”

This risks creating more superbugs.

Does the highly secretive TPP agreement between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations include a "death sentence clause?" Zahara Heckscher, a cancer patient, talks about why the trade deal "would actually condemn women to death."

Big Pharma "cornered the market on life-saving heart drugs" and guess what happened next: they jacked up the prices. Are pharmaceutical companies' business models based on legalized price gouging?