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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 […]

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 […]

01/12/2017 / By Mike Adams

This announcement by Donald Trump is going to make Big Pharma go berserk (podcast)

In case you haven’t heard the great news, President-elect Donald Trump is already taking aim at Big Pharma’s obscene profits. He’s announced his intention to make them (finally!) engage in competitive bidding to supply prescription medications to the federal government, which purchases over $320 billion a year in prescription drugs. (Yep, almost a third of […]

01/11/2017 / By Mike Adams

Draining the Pharma swamp: Donald Trump announces plan to hammer Big Pharma’s monopoly profits by requiring competitive bidding for government drug purchase contracts

In a welcome announcement during a press conference today, President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan to shatter the monopolistic pricing of Big Pharma that has been draining literally trillions of dollars from the government for the past two decades. “Pharma has a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power,” said Trump. “There’s very little […]

11/08/2016 / By JD Heyes

Is Big Pharma and the FDA both to blame for the soaring costs of drugs?

Americans were promised that the passage of the Affordable Care Act would usher in universal health coverage and lower healthcare costs. None of those promises have been kept, nor have several others that the law’s chief advocate, President Obama, made. Drug costs have soared, and while that may not surprise many people, the reasons why […]

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