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06/17/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Trump officials sit down with Big Pharma to negotiate “voluntary” drug price reductions … Drug giants laugh it off

According to unnamed sources and as reported by The Hill, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been meeting with pharmaceutical companies as of late to ask them to voluntarily cut drug prices. If the negotiations are successful and these companies do decide to cut prices (which is extremely unlikely), then […]

02/12/2018 / By JD Heyes

Trump prepares to NUKE Big Pharma’s high drug prices

The Trump administration is preparing to do something that no administration in the modern era has ever attempted must less expressed an interest in doing: Taking on Big Pharma and its schemes to maximize profits at the expense of patients. If you recall, one of the big, fat lies Barack Obama and his sycophantic Democratic […]

01/01/2018 / By JD Heyes

Big Pharma BOOM: Drug prices SOARED in 2017 and you’ll never guess who’s getting YOUR medicine rebates

President Donald J. Trump campaigned, in part, on a pledge to pursue policies that would end the nightmare trend of skyrocketing costs for medications across America, and the latest data on Big Pharma’s revenue stream proves once again that this is a promise he really needs to keep. In October, the president heavily criticized drug […]

12/14/2017 / By Tracey Watson

More proof Big Pharma is all about Big Profit: Doctors experiencing a shortage of antibiotics because they’ve become less profitable to produce

It’s no secret that the world is facing an antibiotic apocalypse in which simple cuts and bacterial infections could once again be deadly. Misuse and overuse of antibiotics have created what are known as superbugs – bacteria that have evolved in such a way that they can no longer be killed by any known antibiotic. […]

09/03/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

How Big Pharma rips off everybody by selling low-cost pills at over 1000% mark-ups

There are lots of reasons that people despise Big Pharma, but a recent investigation has revealed yet another way that drug companies are ripping people off: by selling the exact same medications for very different prices using different packaging. According to U.K. consumer watchdog group Which?, some branded medications are being sold for up to […]

08/19/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

LAWSUIT: CVS Pharmacies accused of hiking up drug prices for those with insurance

Leading retail pharmacy chain, CVS, is being implicated in an overcharging scheme which used “clawbacks” to jack up prices for supposedly inexpensive generic drugs. According to the plaintiff, Megan Schultz, some of the “affected” prescriptions include lithium, naproxen, and zolpidem. Lawyers of Schultz have said that the public remains unaware of this repulsive behavior, in […]

08/14/2017 / By Mike Adams

Memo to Merck CEO Ken Frazier: Your company has easily killed 100,000 times the number of those killed in Charlottesville violence

In case you haven’t heard, Merck CEO Ken Frazier resigned from President Trump’s manufacturing council, blaming Trump for the violence in Charlottesville that killed one protester and two police officers (whose helicopter fell out of the sky for yet-unknown reasons). Yet Ken Frazier himself should be arrested and imprisoned for carrying out mass chemical violence […]

03/02/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Big Pharma is quietly convincing Congress that it’s okay to spend $1,000 per day on dangerous pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma has become synonymous with the term “price gouging,” especially over the last few years. The EpiPen incident — when Mylan raised the price of the life-saving drug by more than 500 percent — is truly only the tip of the iceberg; there is much more to come from Big Pharma, and they’re not […]

02/20/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Big Pharma increases life-saving drug’s price by 7,000 percent, with help from FDA

Proving yet again that it values the bottom line over human lives, Big Pharma has increased the price of one life-saving medicine by more than 7,000-fold. Adding to the outrage for those who depend on the drug is the fact that this shameful price hike was made possible by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). […]

01/19/2017 / By JD Heyes

Donald Trump the first President in decades to finally take aim at Big Pharma’s monopolistic drug cartel

Tens of millions of Americans have been suffering under the crushing weight of rising healthcare costs—which, of course, were supposed to drop drastically, we were promised, when Obamacare was fully implemented. Out-of-pocket expenses have been rising for health insurance premiums, deductibles and prescription medications, with Big Pharma operating as a legalized drug cartel. Keeping prices […]

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