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As political scrutiny mounts, Eli Lilly divulges new insulin pricing data
24 March 2019 - Lilly says the price it was paid for popular insulin Humalog fell 8.1% from 2014 to 2018 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2019
Drug prices on TV? They may be coming.
23 March 2019 - The Trump administration is moving ahead with its proposal to require drug companies to disclose the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2019
Drug company protections are latest stumbling block for NAFTA rewrite
21 March 2019 - President Trump’s ability to get his revised North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress may hinge ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2019
Senate panel to hear from pharmacy middlemen on drug prices
21 March 2019 - The Senate Finance Committee said Thursday that it has secured commitments from executives of five major ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2019
Partisan squabbles shadow Congress' efforts to lower drug prices
20 March 2019 - It was supposed to be one of the few areas of bipartisanship. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Mar 2019
Fewer people are strategising with prescription drug choices to control their health care costs
19 March 2019 - The U.S. has the highest drug prices in the world. Despite enormous expenses in research and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Mar 2019
A drug pricing mystery: Who’s behind all the outrage over rebates?
19 March 2019 - The Department of Health and Human Services has already received 18,000 comments on its proposal to end ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Mar 2019
Think drugs are expensive in the U.S.? Just try China
19 March 2019 - Beijing will want pharma companies to share the pain of the country’s growing health care costs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Mar 2019
Washington must change the system that encourages high drug prices
18 March 2019 -“Take away our rebates? We’ll just up premiums.” ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2019
Chile takes several ‘unorthodox’ steps to push back on drug prices, angering pharma
18 March 2019 - Searching for ways to beat back rising drug costs, the Chilean legislature is advancing three measures ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2019
Ohio accuses UnitedHealth's OptumRx of drug overcharges in lawsuit
18 March 2019 - Ohio’s attorney general on Monday said he had filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc’s OptumRx unit, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2019
Medicines only work if patients can afford them: solutions for the high drug prices era
18 March 2019 - Since 2000, more than 500 new medicines have been approved by the FDA. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2019
Outside political groups not always what they appear
18 March 2019 - As ominous music plays in the background, the narrator of a radio ad echoes objections from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2019
CMA drops anti-competitive case against MSD
18 March 2019 - The Competition and Markets Authority has closed its investigation into a suspected anti-competitive discount scheme developed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2019
Prescription drug prices are out of control
17 March 2019 - In an all-too-rare example of political consensus, congressional law makers on both sides of the aisle ...