From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Prescription drug prices are continuing to rise and many families are struggling to afford life-saving prescriptions. In a recent survey by Kaiser Family Foundation, about a quarter of Americans said they’ve had trouble paying for a … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Thank you to our friends at Sojourners for publishing a version of this article, titled “Medicine Monopolies Are Poised to Get Worse”, by our editor. Click here if you want to see the article as it was … Continued
From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org): The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) revision fails to make the changes needed to protect jobs, raise wages, defend worker rights and safeguard the environment — but it does contain special new … Continued
Posted at https://faithinhealthcare.org/fhc/beating-pharma-shell-game A trillion-dollar industry is in trouble. And it is fighting back. A Harvard-Politico poll taken after the 2018 elections showed that both Republican and Democrat voters cite prescription drug pricing as the top priority for this new Congress. A new Kaiser Family … Continued
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
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): 1 in 5 Pennsylvanians have chosen not to fill a prescription due to cost. Another 1 in 6 have skipped doses or cut pills in half because of costs. 2 in 3 Pennsylvanians … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Antavia Worsham of Cincinnati died because she could not afford the insulin to treat her Type 1 diabetes. David Bridges of Indiana is forced to ration his glaucoma medicine. John Krane put off filling the prescription for a $159,000 medicine to … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In EPI’s Working Economics blog, EPI’s Bivens lauds Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House for pushing meaningful health care reform by introducing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation … Continued
International Business Times By David Sirota @davidsirota and Alex Kotch @alexkotch on 07/31/17 at 8:43 PM Allowing Americans to purchase lower-priced medicines from other countries would save the federal government alone more than $6 billion, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. The report … 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