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ICYMI: New York Times Opinion: Taxpayers Fund Research and Drug Companies Make a Fortune
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times today published an op-ed by David Mitchell, cancer patient and founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs, breaking down how the COVID-19 vaccine story makes it clearer than ever why Americans need our government to negotiate prices for all prescription drugs – including vaccines. Mitchell’s piece is in response to […]
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Patients For Affordable Drugs Announces New Communications Director
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bipartisan advocacy organization Patients For Affordable Drugs, and its sister organization Patients For Affordable Drugs Now, today named Audrey Baker as its communications director. Audrey will take leadership of overall communications, including media relations. Audrey has worked in advocacy communications for over five years, most recently at the communications firm M+R, […]
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Big Pharma’s Big Lie: The Truth About Innovation and Drug Pricing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report from Patients For Affordable Drugs takes on Big Pharma’s long-standing claim that any constraints on its pricing power will destroy innovation and access to valuable new medicines, and shows why it is clearly possible for Americans to enjoy both innovation and lower prices. “I have an incurable blood cancer; […]
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Patients For Affordable Drugs Names Executive Director
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bipartisan advocacy organization Patients For Affordable Drugs, and its sister organization Patients For Affordable Drugs Now, welcomes Sheila McLean as its executive director to lead the charge in the fight to lower drug prices. Over more than three decades, McLean has driven change in public health, health care, social impact, and […]
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Hoping We Wouldn’t Notice? Pharma Spreads Out Its New Year Price Hikes
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Thirty-five drug corporations waited until the spotlight on new year price hikes had faded and then tried to quietly make nearly 150 additional increases on top-selling prescription drugs, according to data from AnalySource. So far, drug corporations have raised the prices of 783 drugs in January 2021 alone. While more than 100 other […]
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Pharma Raises Prices On Over 600 Drugs To Start The New Year
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new analysis from Patients For Affordable Drugs found that more than 100 drug corporations raised list prices on 636 drugs in the first week of January, with a median price hike of 4.99 percent — more than four times the rate of inflation. Big Pharma’s price hikes outpace those from the first […]
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Taxpayers to Big Pharma: You’re Welcome
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multinational drug corporations want all the credit for the COVID-19 vaccines — but taxpayer funding is overwhelmingly responsible for the new vaccines’ creations. Now, drug companies stand to make billions in profit off of the pandemic and cash in on the public’s massive vaccine investment, Patients For Affordable Drugs says in its latest […]
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STATEMENT: Big Pharma Continues Price Hikes as Americans Fight Pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to the news that Big Pharma increased prices on hundreds of drugs on January 1st, 2021, David Mitchell, a cancer patient and founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs, issued the following statement: “Pandemic be damned, drug corporations started 2021 just like every other year — raising prices by as much as […]