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• Congress Makes Health Insurers’ Christmas Merry

  
  Cats Working — Authority: 120
  By Yul Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) tried to introduce a bill for single-payer healthcare to Congress, only 700 pages, compared to that 2,000-page monstrosity Harry Reid loves. Why so short? Because Sanders omitted 1,300 pages of loopholes to protect drugmakers, insurers, and every other leech feeding off the ...
  12 hours ago

• Chomsky on Politics and Health Care in America

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 129
  At some point in the not very distant future, people will wonder why no one paid more attention to Chomsky. He’s been telling the truth for 50 years…and America still can’t manage to do something every other industrialized nation on earth does for its citizens – provide some basic level of universal health ...
  1 day ago

• Obama Abandons Campaign Pledge and Allows Big Pharm to Prosper and Individuals to Pay Higher Drug Prices

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 158
  I think this is the saddest I’ve felt about the Obama administration.  During the campaign, President Obama promised to fight the drug industry so that Americans can get cheaper prescription medicine by importing it from countries like Canada.  He said: “We’ll tell the pharmaceutical companies ‘thanks, but ...
  2 days ago

• The essentials for true healthcare reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  It’s important not to lose sight of a few crucial details that must be included in any final healthcare reform bill if change is really going to become a reality. This is the focus of a post on Arianna Huffington’s blog today and a few key points are worth mentioning. She writes:Amidst the tea leaf [...]
  1 week ago

• Time for Congress to revisit Pharma’s broken deal?

  
  Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project — Authority: 91
  This past Tuesday, PhRMA was before Congress.  Not  lobbying to block price negotiations or generic competitors, but attending a hearing in their honor ( click here for details of the hearing).  Chairman Henry Waxman, of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has called upon PhRMA to explain their recent price ...
  1 week ago

• Are Drug Prices Rising Too Fast? Watch The Hearing

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  In the wake of reports that drugmakers have boosted prices to compensate for agreed-upon discounts in the health care reform legislation, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health is holding a hearing this morning and you can watch it here , starting at 9:25 am EST (go the lower right corner ...
  1 week ago

• Did State Medicaid Programs Finance Plavix Direct-to-Consumer Advertising?

  
  Pharma Marketing Blog — Authority: 120
  When the November 15, 2009, AARP Rx Watchdog Report revealed that manufacturer prices for widely used brand name drugs have climbed dramatically over the last year, despite a negative general inflation rate, many people -- including several Congressmen -- suspected “price gouging” in anticipation of future cost ...
  3 weeks ago

• Congress Asks GAO To Track Drug Pricing

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  In the wake of reports that drugmakers raised prices by as much as 9 percent, on average, this year, the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a report on recent trends in prescription drug pricing. The letter also requests that GAO ...
  4 weeks ago

• Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 135
  The New York Times By DUFF WILSON Published November 15, 2009 Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last ...
  4 weeks ago

• Drug Companies Raising Prices in Anticipation of Healthcare Reform Bill

  
  ShoppingBlog.com — Authority: 590
  Drug makers are rushing to raise prices on brand name drugs before a healthcare reform bill is passed. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more than $10 billion to the nations drug bill, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Monday Reading

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 151
  Rising drug prices, sailing the Caribbean frugally and other consumer-focused items from todays Times.
  4 weeks ago

• An Odd Mix: Health Care Reform & Higher Rx Prices

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  Even as drug makers promised to support health care reform by slashing $8 billion annually from drug costs, wholesale prices of prescription drugs rose by about 9 percent - and this can add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which could exceed $300 billion this year, The New York Times reports. We ...
  4 weeks ago

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