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Source: Big Pharma ushers in new year with price hikes on hundreds of drugs
More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds of medicines, according to a new analysis from Rx Savings Solutions, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The drugs that saw list-price increases on January 1 ranged from generics and blood-pressure drugs to brand-name prescriptions such as the dry-eye treatment Restasis. The average price jump blew past inflation at 6.5 percent, with some medicines seeing double-digit increases—bucking many drug companies' vows to keep such periodic hikes under 10 percent.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday January 04 2019, @02:28AM
Yup: between my son being born 2.5 months early and my wife's 3 cancer scares (hysterectomy, breast biopsy we're still awaiting results for, and her blood being wonky, possibly leukemia??) my family would probably be bankrupt if we weren't Canadian.
Dog bless Canada.
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