Originally published at: Lower Drug Prices for Americans ‘Too Good to Be True,’ Declares Big Pharma
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Note that Congressional bribes accelerated in recent months from all sectors of the medical industrial complex to assure that the world’s most dysfunctional but profitable health care landscape gets more dysfunctional and more profitable…in a nutshell: the only changes will be changes that benefit the 1% and their corporations at the expense of the 99%.
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Big Pharma will NEVER allow lower drug prices and neither will congress. Buy your drugs from Canada.
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There’s a dead skunk in the middle of the road. Stinkin’ to high heaven.
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Too good to be true says Big Pharma, The Sackler Dynasty and the GOP Death Cult.
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For anyone interested: the Congressional Budget Office issue a report in April.
“Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
below copied from the document:
About This Document
This Congressional Budget Office report was prepared at the request of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance. In accordance with CBO’s mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the report makes no recommendations.
David Austin and Tamara Hayford prepared the report with guidance from Joseph Kile, Lyle Nelson, and Julie Topoleski. Christopher Adams, Pranav Bhandarkar, and David Wylie (formerly of CBO) contributed to the analysis. Anna Anderson-Cook (formerly of CBO), Colin Baker, Paul Burnham,
Julia Christensen, Michael Falkenheim, Sebastien Gay, Ryan Greenfield, Stuart Hammond,
Evan Herrnstadt, Leo Lex, Paul Masi, John McClelland, Lara Robillard, Ellen Werble, Chapin White, and Katherine Young provided useful comments.
Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peter Bach of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Craig Garthwaite of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University provided helpful comments on the draft. (The assistance of external reviewers implies no responsibility for the final product, which rests solely with CBO.)
if the VA can negotiate prices why can’t the rest of the government agencies that deal with Medicare prescription coverage do the same? Such a bunch of liars and crooks. Greed is their moral goal.
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The only thing missing from the photo that illustrates this article – the pill cutter that divides the dose in half so the patient can afford to take at least half of the medicine they were prescribed!
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how can we be denying people medicine ??? what are our priorities???
There should be a national plan and a standard co-pay----we see public money helping the private sector—these clowns can work out the differences but their should be a standard plan for everybody----do your stupid job Congress------
go read the document Congress----it is your job to watch out for the welfare of all Americans----do your job!
stop all corporate bribes!