Sentences with phrase «about high drug prices»

The stock prices of most drug related companies have been suppressed a bit recently as a result of politicians voicing their opinions about high drug prices.

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And the defiant stance actually may have boosted the drug maker's image at a time when Americans are skeptical about the pharmaceutical industry over high drug prices.

The pharmaceutical industry is typically reluctant to talk about U.S. drug prices, generally the highest in the world due to a combination of market fragmentation and free market policies.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

Learn more about how pharmaceutical companies price drugs, why prices are often very high and why it can be difficult to settle on a suitable price.

What one city did to fight high drug prices reveals a drug supply chain in which just about every link can benefit when prices go up

Ania and I went to buy bread and in one block's distance we saw about 15 tales of insanity, drug abuse and poverty: a homeless man with one leg shooting up on the pavement; an old women dragging 50 filthy plastic bags, vomiting into the sewer grate; five tranny hookers sitting in a hotel stairwell, wearing nothing but g - strings, making cat calls at the passing traffic; a crackhead walking in circles, talking out loud to no one in front of a fruit stand; little boys, none older than 11, all huffing shoe glue out of black plastic bags to get a 10 - minute high; and a group of plump ladies sorting through garbage in the street, looking for old produce that can be re-bagged and re-sold at discount prices.

A recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the public cares more about controlling the high price of prescription drugs than making changes to the controversial Affordable Care Act.

Moglia: We get asked about the antics of high - profile cases like Martin Shkreli, who bought licenses for affordable drugs and hiked prices by more than 50 times the original per - pill cost.