Medicare for All was perhaps the best policy litmus test for progressive politicians in the second half of the 2010s. Today, it has rarely looked less likely to become law. Insurance industry lobbying groups, in tandem with the Chamber of Commerce, have figured out how to beat back the popular policy’s advance, even in one-party blue states like California. And yet the necessity of excising the profit motive from the American health care system, which continues on its ignominious pace to produce bottom-barrel results at maximal prices, has never been clearer.
Category: Big Pharma
The Journo-Pushers of Prozac
A grotesque computer-generated graphic covered page one of the New York Times Sunday Styles section –overflowing bottles of glossy, rainbow-colored pills–
July 2022 Price Hikes Report | Patients For Affordable Drugs
In The Third Year Of The Pandemic And As Americans Grapple With Record Inflation, Big Pharma Continues To Raise Prices And Exploit Patients
Source: July 2022 Price Hikes Report | Patients For Affordable Drugs
Big Pharma Has Spent $147 Million to Kill Lower Drug Prices During Pandemic
“The big drug companies spend so massively lobbying to keep the market rigged in their favor and seniors at their mercy, including many literally choosing between food and medicine,” said Accountable.US.
Source: Big Pharma Has Spent $147 Million to Kill Lower Drug Prices During Pandemic
The Pain Profiteers
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
Source: The Pain Profiteers | Portside
What Far-Left? Asks AOC. ‘We Can’t Even Get Our Party to Import Cheaper Prescription Drugs from Canada’
The New York Democrat ridiculed a meme shared on Twitter by Elon Musk, the platform’s new owner and the world’s richest person.
Medicine Must Be Freed From the Vise Grip of Patent Law
New drugs are developed with vast amounts of taxpayer money. But instead of universal access to these publicly funded scientific achievements, we get prohibitively expensive medicine and sky-high profits for pharmaceutical companies.
Source: Medicine Must Be Freed From the Vise Grip of Patent Law
1848+: The End(s) of History 