Sentences with phrase «skyrocketing drug prices»

Health insurers, which have pointed to skyrocketing drug prices as a source of premium hikes, welcomed the proposal.

Drug maker Mylan said it will offer a generic version of the life - saving allergy treatment EpiPen for half the list price of the brand - name treatment after it became the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug prices.

Congress is deadlocked over the future of the Affordable Care Act, and employers and consumers are struggling to contain rising medical costs, particularly skyrocketing drug prices.

Skyrocketing drugs prices are increasing pressure on an already troubled NHS and becoming a barrier to bringing new therapies to patients.

Not exact matches

And so all of the documents Congress requested have to do with the gap between the drug's actual cost to Mylan (which hasn't changed much since 2007) and its skyrocketing price.

Last year, as pressure mounted on the pharmaceutical industry after a series of high profile cases involving skyrocketing prices, drug companies spent roughly $ 800,000 lining campaign coffers in Albany.

Sequoia staked its fate to the performance of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a firm adored by hedge fund managers and Sequoia — which plowed over a third of its portfolio into the stock — for its singular strategy: buy small drug companies with successful niche medicines, then skyrocket the price of those drugs.