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When we asked you to rapidly expand manufacturing so we can produce 3, 4 billion doses per year, you did it,” Bourla said. And Pfizer said “no” The government is the largest purchaser of prescription drugs, and they should be allowed to negotiate prices with pharma companies whose profit margins are the highest of any industry.
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. Big Pharma’s chokehold around the U.S. Via Axios “The 10 highest-selling drugs in the U.S.
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He accepted the companies’ position that the painkillers they supplied – some 51 million between 2006 and 2014 – were shipped “in good faith” by the distributors before being prescribed by physicians and dispensed by pharmacies, and they had no way of telling whether those prescriptions were legitimate.
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biologics market and reduce prescription drug costs. In 2022, it made its manufacturer, AbbVie, $21.2bn. This strategy is often chosen by the brand manufacturers who offer higher rebates at the net price level in exchange for better placement on formularies. The current U.S.
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