Sentences with phrase «jack up the price of»

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

In September, the pair sent a letter to Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli after he jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria and parasitic infections in patients with weakened immune systems, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

Her company is best known for jacking up the price of life - saving EpiPen anti-allergy medication, but it also manufactures naloxone, a drug meant to treat opioid over-doses.

The judge said that the punishment for the founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals is not for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, nor for his abrasive behavior.

If not Mylan's Bresch, it's Turing Pharmaceuticals» Martin Shkreli, who jacked up the price of Daraprim — used to treat life - threatening infections — from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a pill.

Earlier this week Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada's largest grocery chain, admitted it took part in an industry - wide scheme to jack up the price of bread.

The hedge fund founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals jacked up the price of a popular HIV drug from $ 13.50 per pill to roughly $ 750.

For example, the insane jack up price of epipen and the contract is just tip of the iceberg.

Some warranties can jack up the price of the original item though.

The aim here is the same as the collusion between the Big 6 and Apple, which was to jack up the prices of ebooks on customers.

Kind of like Martin Shkreli who jacked up the price of Daraprim 5000 % overnight once he bought the company and thought the drug was being underpriced.

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

If you want to watch how book publishers can accelerate their own demise, watch what happens when the giant book publishers exercise their new - found freedom to jack up the price of e-books sold.

Jacking up the price of e-books so the books for his new device would make more money.

9 a month though this would jack up the price of the ARNOVA 10 G2 to $ 129.

The «Big Five» purposely jack up the price of their ebooks in an effort to make ebooks less attractive than their cash - cow print books.

So we should have to let publishers collude to jack up the price of e-books because those are the only terms under which they're willing to stop other anti-consumer practices like windowing?

You can jack up the price of that free ebook and one day make it free again.

Whatever the dealer can do to jack up the price of a car they do.

Breeders jack up the price of Blue Nose Pitbulls, believing that blue lust will drive people to pay the unjustifiable price.

So, to discourage it, breeders just jack up the price of females to reduce their availability.

Karam worries because she has been told that when the Amish breeders attending the auction know that a rescue, rather than a fellow breeder, is trying to buy the dog, they bid against the rescue just to jack up the price of the dog.

I have no problem with the food, but you just jacked up the price of it by at least 25 percent and you don't sell it in a larger bag.

Could not disagree with many of you on this post my Boston Terrier just passed away and over the last 4 years trupanion has paid out over 45k in my dogs vet bills and all of his medications and never questioned me one time or jacked up the price of his premium or deductible.

«They really jack up the prices of hotel rooms during blizzards, so it softened the blow a little,» she says.

And if it doesn't go through with that proposal, American Airlines is likely to jack up the prices of these awards by early next year.

«What we do is jack up the price of the individual games just before the sale starts, then we bundle a few together, then discount the bundle.

Some people do actually we will have a nintendo land in universal studios soon so Like once that's made pshhhh forget about it nintendo will never go any where... Just for this reason alone, imagine this a bottle of water usually goes for 1.50 $ at Wal - Mart at universal a slightly bigger bottle goes for 7 $ now imagine if nintendo set up a souvenir store and sold gee I du n no amiibos for a jacked up price of like 25 $ lol forget about it dude nintendo ain't going no where x ’D

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell received more than 300 complaints by late Saturday of gas stations jacking up the price of fuel as hundreds of thousands of residents made their...

If you consider them to be completely interchangeable and I think you should, then if you want fast food and the closest is Burger King, it's like across town or they've just jacked up the price of a Whopper, you'll go to McDonald's because it's all the same to you, right.

Not exact matches

Miller, chief investment officer at LMM, said he thinks the embattled drugmaker is «a completely different company» than the one that was under severe fire for jacking up drug prices, and could see returns of 25 percent to 30 percent per year over the next five years.

Excess speculation restricts supply and jacks up prices, too — which further cements the belief in the minds of buyers that they have to act fast, and that the recent pace of the market is sustainable.

Jack Groetzinger and Russ D'Souza, both avid concertgoers and sports enthusiasts, were fed up with the unpredictability of the secondary ticket market — reseller pricing that can swing from significantly higher than face value to cut - rate, depending on an event's popularity.

You can learn a lot about the ethics of pricing by contemplating why hardwares stores generally didn't jack up their prices.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals became embroiled in scandal for jacking up the prices on some of its drugs, including Addyi, the little pink pill.

«In 1981 the public should have seen Volcker's jacking up of short - term rates to 21 percent as a very positive move, which would bring down long - term inflation and push up bond and stock prices.»

And when the market is in crash mode, and the prices of options are all jacked up, everyone will want to buy them.

Others are speculating that the park companies are getting a price hike out of the way in early 2014 just so that they can add on another price hike before the year is over, without getting as much grief for jacking up prices by, say, $ 10 or $ 12 all at once.

Probably, true, there are lots of houses in LA and OC brought up by investors that jacked the price up, but with rising interest rates and a limit of the mortgage deduction it might not work as much in the future.

Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on Twitter and insulted his questioners as «imbeciles.»

Of course, the prices were completely jacked up.»

Jack would fetch an inflated price because of his nationality, cash in and move up.

Unless Dickey suddenly jacks up his asking price to an astronomical level, the Blue Jays better jump on the possibility of getting three years of Dickey's unhittable stuff — imagine his first trip through a new league — for roughly $ 11 million per year.

Of course, it would also help by jacking up the price a lot, too.

Even Trump can do nothing to «jack up» the price of the oil, the last thing USA want to do is strengthen oil - dollar.

Some train companies have jacked up prices so much that some season tickets are now a fifth of the average salary in this country.

«It's unacceptable for a health care company to put life - saving medicine out of people's reach by jacking up prices,» said Stringer, although he stopped short of saying the city pension funds would divest from Mylan.

Governments could also simply tax Internet access, or providers could jack up the prices, in such a way as to price it out of reach of most people.

ATLAS would have berberine if it didn't taste like Satan's nutsack (if we ever use berberine it will be in pills), ASCEND would have pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) if it wouldn't have jacked up the price horrendously, that sort of thing.