Wide majorities of voters want public officials to reduce American medicine prices, which are the highest in the world and have become a key driver of skyrocketing healthcare costs. And yet as politicians including Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have continued to call for a crackdown, corporate power players have successfully blocked even minimal reforms […]
What’s Neoliberalism? And How It’s Killing You!…
Dore explains ‘Neoliberalism’ what the Democratic Party is really all about these days. He states Neoliberalism ‘include[s] extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society’…
Big Pharma Funds “Independent” Advocacy Groups Attacking Drug-Price Reduction Bill…
Advertisements from seemingly independent advocacy groups are swamping Beltway newspapers with dire warning that recent proposals to lower drug prices will lead to dangerous consequences. In the last week alone, the ads have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Roll Call, The Hill, and Politico. The groups placing the ads have no obvious connection […]
McCaskill Opens Probe into Opioid Drugmakers, but Omits Nation’s Worst Offender from Her Home State…
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., opened an investigation Tuesday into the role drug companies may have played in the nation’s opioid epidemic. She requested internal documents from five leading drugmakers on how they market opioid painkillers and if they knew anything about the dangers of the drugs. Yet, the top opioid prescription manufacturer, which is […]
Sanders Calls for Investigation of Big Pharma Drug Pushers Over Shocking New Report…
From 2007-2012, the Big Three wholesalers earned a combined $17 billion while they collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia…
Illinois AG Sues Insys Therapeutics Over Deceptive Marketing Practices of ‘Opiod’ Products…
In a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois, Insys Therapeutics Inc. has been accused of deceptive marketing practices involving a cancer drug and using “sham” speaking…
GlaxoSmithKline and Google Team Up to Create New Bioelectronics Health Company…
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and Google’s parent company Alphabet have announced they’re creating a new company to develop bioelectronic medicines…
30% of Medicare Part D Beneficiaries Are Taking Commonly Abused Opioids…
U.S. Heroin Epidemic: ‘Reached around one million in 2014 – almost three times the amount in 2003’…
The United States is struggling with a heroin “epidemic,” with the number of users reaching a 20-year high, according to a United Nations report…
United Nations 2015 World Drug Report…
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