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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.
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Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs
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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 04 2019, @08:39PM
You know, in the end it all boils down to who gets stuck with the paperwork. I pay taxes for the government to do it (here's lookin' at you, IRS!). That is kind of its purpose, along with the common defense and all that. Why don't we have universal health care? It is pure antipathy, all the false pretenses and bean counting are based on that. There is nothing else. The money issues just aren't issues, they are distractions, rationalizations for hatred. There's more than enough, just have to manage it transparently. But until there there is sufficient demand, voiced through the vote, nothing is going to happen beyond the continuing slow decline.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..