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“Copay accumulators” put patients in middle of battle between insurers and drugmakers
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The tactic helps insurance companies counter high drug prices, but patient advocates are working to ban them.
Medicare may soon be able to negotiate prescription drug prices
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The health policy reform is part of the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, which could aid 48 million Medicare recipients.
The Trump administration wants drug companies to lower prices. This is what’s actually happening.
Pfizer recently raised the list prices for more than 40 of its prescription medications, including the pain med Lyrica. It’s the second time this year Pfizer has boosted list prices. The increases come at a time of increased public and political scrutiny over drug prices. Is Big Pharma not feeling the heat? Click the above […]
Botox is a multi-billion dollar, potentially deadly monopoly
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The product comes from a substance so lethal that it could be used as a potential agent of bioterrorism.
Why pharma companies are bowing out of generics
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Many generic drugs have become so cheap, they have pencil-thin profit margins.

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