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Biden proposes subsidizing drug middlemen for insulin

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Under the bill proposed, Medicare beneficiaries and those insured through private plans would pay no more than $35 for a 30-day insulin prescription, or the lesser of $35 or 25% of the plan’s negotiated price for a 30-day prescription. This could cost taxpayers billions over the year. Los Angeles Times. billion to $5.7

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Misjustice benefits pharma

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Doctors, 99% of whom were acting in good faith, determined the total volume of prescription opioids that pharmacies ordered from defendants and dispensed pursuant to those prescriptions,” Faber wrote in his opinion. The health sector led the federal and state lobbying spending in 2021, continuing a trend from 2019 and 2020.

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The fairytale of DTC TV ads

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Using the same ads to advertise prescription drugs repeatedly is a waste of money and doesn’t lead to sales. According to a 2019 study from Kantar , a whopping 70 percent of consumers say they see the same ads over and over again. ” Ninety-two percent of U.S. Nowhere is this clearer than in pharma DTC TV ads.

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New FDA head needs to examine the accelerated approval program

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The analysis focused on Medicare Part B and Part D spending — which covers outpatient medical care and prescription drugs, respectively, — in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the researchers said. That money is gone without any clinical benefit and the executives at those drug companies received compensation because of those sales.

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Pharma is “big business” that uses excuses to keep prices high

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Seventy-nine percent of Americans think the price of prescription drugs is “unreasonable,” according to a 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation poll , and about 9 in 10 say they support the idea of the government negotiating prices. sales of the 20 top-selling drugs worldwide totaled $101.1 Washington Post. In other words, the U.S.

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Is pharma being unfairly targeted by the media?

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According to KFF “half of all Part D covered drugs (50% of 3,343 drugs) and nearly half of all Part B covered drugs (48% of 568 drugs) had price increases more significant than inflation between July 2019 and July 2020, which was 1.0%. or more – the current annual inflation rate. .

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Novartis said to be eyeing sale of ophthalmology, respiratory units

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Novartis has already spun out its eyecare business Alcon, and is now considering the sale of its ophthalmology and respiratory medicines businesses as it continues a narrowing of its focus, according to media reports. Meanwhile, Lucentis sales have been in decline as a result of biosimilar competition, contracting 11% to $1.55

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