Sentences with phrase «high prescription drug prices»

The White House released a white paper proposing policies to lower high prescription drug prices, an idea President Donald Trump campaigned on.

That trajectory that will surprise no one who follows the news, or the bipartisan campaign - season bashing of the nation's sky - high prescription drug prices.

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Trump responded to Frazier's resignation with angry tweets, calling Merck a leader in high prescription - drug prices and in moving jobs overseas.

So why are prescription drug prices so high?

Meanwhile, Cuomo ended his three - day State of the State tour Wednesday with a speech in Albany that featured a renewed call for ethics reform and a proposal designed to cap the sky - high prices of prescription drugs in New York.

One, to «effectively create a price ceiling for certain high cost prescription drugs reimbursed under the Medicaid program by requiring a 100 percent supplemental rebate for any amount that exceeds a benchmark price recommended by the state's Drug Utilization Review Board.»

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

Doctors often cite the high price of a prescription drug as a reason they don't prescribe it, while patients similarly say that cost is a main reason they quit taking a drug.

Higher health - sector prices (eg, hospital care and prescription drugs) are thought to be the main driver of expenditure differences between the USA and other high - spending countries, and the authors highlight the progress that the USA has made in reducing the disparity between its health care spending and other high - income countries.

As hearings began, Bryant's high - priced defense team wasted no time attacking the victim, building the case that her vaginal trauma was consistent with having had multiple sex partners in one day and dug into her anti-psychotic drug prescriptions and history of hospitalization.

While bronze plans tend to be the lowest priced, they also have relatively high out - of - pocket costs when customers go to the doctor, get surgery or buy prescription drugs.

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.