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Morning Consult: “How Patients Will Take on the Rigged System for Drug Pricing"
March 6, 2017 David Mitchell Every Tuesday for the past nine weeks, I’ve sat in an infusion room for four-and-half hours receiving drugs that cost $13,000. It’s going to be every other Tuesday for the next 14 weeks. Total value of the deal — $208,000. I am very grateful for these drugs. I relapsed months […]
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Blooomberg: “Drug Costs Too High? Fire the Middleman"
March 3, 2017 Neil Weinberg and Robert Langreth A decade ago, Caterpillar Inc. looked at its employee drug plan and sensed that money was evaporating. The bills for pills had increased inexorably, so the company started to rein in its pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM. The managers are middlemen with murky incentives behind their decisions […]
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New York Times: “More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows"
March 1, 2017 Katie Thomas The nation’s largest patient advocacy groups are on the front lines of some of the biggest health care debates, from the soaring costs of prescription drugs to whether new medicines are being approved quickly enough. But while their voices carry weight because they represent the interests of sick patients, a […]
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Wall Street Journal: “Facing Criticism, Drug Makers Keep Lid On Price Increases"
February 26, 2017 Jonathan D. Rockoff and Peter Loftus Facing mounting criticism about prices, drug companies put some limits on their increases this year. Prescription-drug makers traditionally raise list prices in January. This year, they didn’t raise prices for as many drugs as last year and imposed fewer boosts of 10% or greater, according to […]
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WBUR: “Not Just Nausea And Vomiting: Cancer Docs Now Worry About 'Financial Toxicity'"
February 24, 2017 Richard Knox Just imagine how it would feel: Your doctor diagnoses cancer. She says there’s a good chance you can beat it, or keep it under control for a long time. But you can’t afford the thousands of dollars you’d have to pay for treatment that your health insurer won’t cover. That […]
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Reuters: “Many U.S. cancer patients struggle to afford life-saving medications"
February 22, 2017 Madeline Kennedy As cancer drug costs rise, U.S. cancer patients are more likely than other medical patients to struggle with paying for prescription medications, according to a recent study. The financial burdens are especially high for patients under age 65 who cannot access Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly, and […]
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Kaiser Health News: “Sky-High Prices For Orphan Drugs Slam American Families And Insurers”
January 17, 2017 Sarah Jane Tribble and Sydney Lupkin Before Luke Whitbeck began taking a $300,000-a-year drug, the 2-year-old’s health was inexplicably failing. A pale boy with enormous eyes, Luke frequently ran high fevers, tired easily and was skinny all over, except his belly stuck out like a bowling ball. “What does your medicine do […]
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STAT News: “Behind patient advocacy groups, donors are exerting a powerful force, study says”
January 17, 2017 Sheila Kaplan WASHINGTON — At a time when drug company lobbyists are widely vilified as icons of avarice, patient advocacy groups still wear the white hats. But those organizations, which promote cures for every type of cancer and hundreds more diseases, have come under criticism lately for favoring their drug company funders […]