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STATEMENT: Unjustified Price Of New ALS Treatment Reinforces Fact That Our Drug Pricing System Fails The People It Is Supposed To Serve – Patients

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued by David Mitchell, a cancer patient and founder and president of Patients For Affordable Drugs, in response to the pricing of Relyvrio following the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug combination to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): “The price of the newly approved drug combination […]

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Merith Basey Named Executive Director Of Patients For Affordable Drugs

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. —  Merith Basey, MSc, has been named executive director of the bipartisan advocacy organization, Patients For Affordable Drugs and its sister organization Patients For Affordable Drugs Now. Basey arrives at […]

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NEW REPORT: Big Pharma’s Lockstep Price Hikes On Widely Used Blood Thinners Exploit Patients And Taxpayers

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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PRESS CONFERENCE: P4AD’s David Mitchell Says House Oversight Committee Report Drives Home Need For Swift Senate Passage Of BBB To Reform Broken Drug Pricing System

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 […]