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posted by mrpg on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the good dept.

Ahead of potential regulation, Johnson & Johnson will include the list and potential out-of-pocket prices of the drugs it sells in television commercials, beginning with Xarelto (rivaroxaban):

Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it will start adding the price of its medicines to television commercials by next month, becoming the first drugmaker to heed a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for price transparency of drugs advertised directly to consumers on TV.

The healthcare conglomerate said it will include both the list price of a product - the price before any rebates or discounts to insurers or pharmacy benefit managers - as well as potential out-of-pocket costs that patients will pay.

The move, announced in a statement on J&J's website, won swift praise from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. Last May, Azar's office released a blueprint for reducing the cost of drug prices, which included a proposal to require disclosure of list prices in TV ads for drugs.

[...] Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the committee, on Monday invited executives from seven pharmaceutical companies, including J&J, to testify at a Feb. 26 hearing on rising drug prices.

Also at MarketWatch.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 11 2019, @01:41AM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @01:41AM (#799316) Journal

    No, I don't have them. I've slain all my dragons, laid my ghosts to rest, and defeated all my enemies. Thank you for your interest though.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 11 2019, @05:51AM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday February 11 2019, @05:51AM (#799394) Journal

    If you think I believe that, you might want to sell me that big bridge from back in my hometown. Your posts make it so obvious how broken you are, and hint at the specific ways in which you are broken, that this sort of denial isn't even funny in a sad way. Who do you think you're fooling? Yourself?

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 11 2019, @06:24AM (5 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @06:24AM (#799407) Journal

      Projection. And, you know that I don't believe you, either. If your ghosts were all laid to rest, you wouldn't be so quick to attack me, and the other folk here who largely think like I do. (I certainly don't mean to imply that anyone here thinks a whole lot like I do, but some of us are similar, at least.) You and Ari are somewhat alike - you both fear me, and anyone vaguely like me. I just wanted to put a name, or a face, to your fears.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 11 2019, @06:30AM (4 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday February 11 2019, @06:30AM (#799409) Journal

        I have told you what my fears are already: raw evil, mass sociopathy, the moral and intellectual rot of the majority of the human race, living in the final days of civilization, watching it shamble off a cliff and drag me along kicking and screaming and cursing my fate. My fears, alas, are very real, and many friends of mine have died because of the results of them.

        Somehow, this sort of thing never enters my dreams, which have a high rate of lucidity and often include lots of fun "sandox" exploration with telekinesis and other psionic powers. I look forward to sleeping and feel I don't get to enough.

        Do I fear you? Not the way you think I do. I fear what you have become, and what you cannot see, and what you refuse to see, in yourself. I fear you because you are one of millions and millions. I fear you the way I fear any single infectious virus out of a mass of trillions of them. Yes, I fear you, because you are trying your level best to destroy your humanity while you still draw breath.

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 11 2019, @07:02AM (3 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @07:02AM (#799421) Journal

          I can argue that mankind is an infectious virus . . . so even if I were what you believe me to be, then I would be "normal".

          No need to worry so much though. The measles outbreak will induce a major die off soon enough. And, then all the rest of the White Horseman's bag of tricks.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 11 2019, @11:48PM (2 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday February 11 2019, @11:48PM (#799837) Journal

            You and people who think and act like you have summoned that Horseman. Your collective death-instinct is so powerful and so strongly expressed that it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. *That* is what I have a problem with: that the arc of the Reaper's scythe makes no distinction between the deserving and otherwise, and if anything tends to fall hardest on those who least deserve an untimely death.

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            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:49AM (1 child)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:49AM (#799870) Journal

              *rolleyes*

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:53AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:53AM (#799875) Journal

                Well, shit, now THERE is a decisive victory. How in the hell am I ever gonna argue with that kind of erudition and wit and well-researched rebuttal?

                Seriously though: shortest. concession. speech. EVER. At least you finally admit it.

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...