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In The Third Year Of The Pandemic And As Americans Grapple With Record Inflation, Big Pharma Continues To Raise Prices And Exploit Patients WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pharmaceutical industry raised prices again in July, bringing the total number of price hikes for the first seven months of this year to 1,186, exceeding the number from the […]
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P4AD’s Report Examines BMS/Pfizer’s Eliquis And Johnson & Johnson’s Xarelto; Underscores Urgent Need For Drug Pricing Reform WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report issued today documents how drug companies use their market and political power to avoid competition and raise prices in lockstep, harming patients and costing Medicare billions of dollars. The report prepared by Patients For Affordable […]
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JANUARY PRICE HIKES 2.0: Big Pharma Pushes Blockbuster Prices To New Heights
Patients For Affordable Drugs’ Price Hikes Update Underscores Urgent Need For Drug Pricing Reform WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Big Pharma continued to raise prices through January, Patients For Affordable Drugs released a new report today examining the most consequential price hikes taken by the drug industry on blockbuster products during the second half of the month. Since P4AD’s […]
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JANUARY 2022 PRICE HIKES REPORT: A New Year Brings The Same Old Bad Behavior By Big Pharma
Patients For Affordable Drugs’ Report Underscores Urgent Need For Drug Pricing Reform WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the pharmaceutical industry ushers in the new year with widespread price hikes on hundreds of life-saving and life-sustaining medications, Patients For Affordable Drugs released a new report today that takes a closer look at the 554 price hikes so far this month, […]
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STATEMENT: Drug Companies Continue To Raise Prices At Will; Congress Must Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to reports that Big Pharma kicked off the year with increased prices on 442 drugs and more price hikes expected, David Mitchell, a cancer patient and founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs, issued the following statement: “At a time when Americans are struggling with the surging omicron variant and prices […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cancer patient and founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs David Mitchell joined House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, congressional leaders, and advocates at a press conference today that revealed the final findings from the committee’s nearly three-year investigation into pharmaceutical pricing and business practices. The committee’s findings sharply […]
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ICYMI: New Video Tells The Truth About COVID-19 Vaccines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Big Pharma is working overtime to sell the story that drug corporations saved us from COVID-19 by developing new vaccines, Patients For Affordable Drugs released a new video and fact sheet this week explaining the mRNA vaccines’ true origin story. The truth is the federal government invested billions of dollars to make […]