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Leading drug companies including Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent, according to a far-reaching lawsuit filed on Friday by 44 states.
The industrywide scheme affected the prices of more than 100 generic drugs, according to the complaint, including lamivudine-zidovudine, which treats H.I.V.; budesonide, an asthma medication; fenofibrate, which treats high cholesterol; amphetamine-dextroamphetamine for A.D.H.D.; oral antibiotics; blood thinners; cancer drugs; contraceptives; and antidepressants.
"We all know that prescription drugs can be expensive," Gurbir S. Grewal, the New Jersey attorney general, said in a statement. "Now we know that high drug prices have been driven in part by an illegal conspiracy among generic drug companies to inflate their prices."
In court documents, the state prosecutors lay out a brazen price-fixing scheme involving more than a dozen generic drug companies and just as many executives responsible for sales, marketing and pricing. The complaint alleges that the conspirators knew their efforts to thwart competition were illegal and that they therefore avoided written records by coordinating instead at industry meals, parties, golf outings and other networking events.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @09:54AM (7 children)
> drugs != life
Easy thing to say when you are young and healthy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @02:05PM (5 children)
How did people live so long before the 1950s? Just look at distribution of lifespans of historical figures who didn't die due to violence or in childhood, it was about the same as today. The only thing that has changed is energy has become much cheaper, so it is not just the rich and powerful (who are overrepresented in history) who are living so long. The average person in the US/Europe lives like a king from 400 years ago.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday May 13 2019, @03:18PM (4 children)
The diabetics died. For them, one specific drug was life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @04:16PM
Yes, and type I diabetes makes up like .0001% of what we are talking about (same with heroin addicts, etc). Also the treatment was developed before medical research got taken over by people who had no idea what they are doing (approximately WWII).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @04:42PM (2 children)
Eg, far more people die just due to "medical errors" than diabetes:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors [npr.org]
Medical errors doesn't count all the deaths from poorly thought out standard practice.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday May 13 2019, @05:01PM (1 child)
That's almost certainly correct. Diabetes is much more likely to cause blindness, loss of a finger or toe, or leg or arm, neuropathy, etc. than death. So if you don't care about being blind and crippled, it's not much of a problem, because you'll actually die of something else.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @05:24PM
No, without insulin type I diabetics will not live to adulthood. Type II diabetes is the result of bad health advice (low fat diet).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @08:11PM
you're a fucking idiot. the drugs are ridiculous hacks that usually kill people faster.