Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Tag: Big Pharma

Senate investigation shows how GOP law enabled Big Pharma’s ‘extreme’ tax...

"Big Pharma gets us coming and going—they charge Americans sky-high prices and they pay absolute rock-bottom taxes, not anywhere near a fair share."

In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of...

"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."

‘Deeply sinister’: emails reveal Big Pharma pushed Twitter to silence vaccine...

"At a time when online mobilizations were one of the few forms of protest available to the public, Twitter was seemingly asked to shield the powerful from criticism," said one campaigner. "That should worry all those who care about accountability."

And this year’s ‘Pharma Greed Awards’ go to…

"Pharma execs are celebrating their own greed with a round of back-slapping awards and swigging champagne."

Hypocrisy abounds as PPP loans to 1% forgiven, while Biden seeks...

Word has leaked out that the Biden administration is about to enter negotiations with Big Pharma, for the express intent of shifting the cost of COVID vaccines and lifesaving antiviral medications, to the patient. 

Pharma mobilizes army of lobbyists to tank Democrats’ Medicare drug pricing...

"Big Pharma is fighting hard to keep their price-setting monopoly intact," said one advocacy coalition.

‘Unbelievable’: Half of new drugs launched in 2020-2021 cost $150,000 or...

"Big Pharma's yearly price hikes have pushed already sky-high drug prices into the stratosphere," said one advocacy group.

‘Enough is enough’: Sanders, Klobuchar unveil bill to slash drug prices...

"We can no longer tolerate policies that make prescription drugs unaffordable and out of reach—Congress must act."

40 House Democrats demand Congress ‘swiftly’ cut drug prices

With the Build Back Better Act stalled in the Senate thanks to the GOP and a couple of right-wing Democrats, 40 party...

Sanders demands end to Medicare premium hike from Alzheimer’s drug

Building on his recent letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday wrote to a key government analyst to...

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More than 120 House Democrats urge Biden to ratify Equal Rights Amendment as deadline...

Lawmakers push President Joe Biden to finalize a constitutional ban on sex discrimination while Republicans invoke past deadlines to stall progress.

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While every president has a right to select their own Cabinet appointees, the Senate also has the Constitutional authority to decide whether each nominee is fit to serve.

6 fracking Billionaires and climate denial groups behind Trump’s cabinet

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Endo’s end around: How one of the nation’s largest opioid makers escaped a $7...

Endo “came with a strategy purposely intended to reduce payments to opioid victims."