From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org): Big Pharma has a stealthy plan to keep medicine prices outrageously high by rigging the rules in the revised NAFTA deal. That’s right, the NAFTA 2.0 text that Donald Trump signed late last year … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills Published on Thursday, January 10, 2019 by Common Dreams “How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?” … Continued
From Public Citizen (https://www.citizen.org/): “The pharmaceutical industry is getting away with murder.” That’s what Donald Trump said back in January. Now, President Trump is writing an executive order that will keep medicine prices high and increase them abroad. Tell Congress: … Continued
Why do Americans pay more for essential, lifesaving medications than anyone else on Earth? Because of the pharmaceutical industry’s seemingly infinite greed and sell-outs in Congress who are beholden to its corrupting political contributions. Several allies have joined to support … Continued
Tell Congress to pass the “Improving Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs Act” to lower drug prices and rein in abuses by pharmaceutical corporations. Our system rewards drug corporations with overwhelming monopoly power, and Big Pharma uses that power to charge … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/11/big-pharma-spending-big-defeat-drug-price-measure Published on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 by Common Dreams Sanders lends support as battle over California’s price gouging ballot measure heats up By Nika Knight, staff writer Mylan infamously raised EpiPen prices by over 500 percent. California’s … Continued
From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/): We have the power to rein in big pharma’s greed without relying on the do-nothing Republicans in Congress. Last month, Mylan – the maker of EpiPen – offered fake price concessions in response to public … Continued