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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

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For many, these coupons represent the difference between filling a prescription and going without lifesaving care, but there is a lot more here than just a co-pay coupon. Pharma companies have very little control over patients’ prices for their Rxs. Let’s take a step back for a minute.

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Prescription drug prices are out of cotrol

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This includes about one in five who report that they have not filled a prescription or took an over-the counter drug instead, and about one in ten who say they have cut pills in half or skipped a dose. The public sees profits made by pharmaceutical companies as the largest factor contributing to the price of prescription drugs.

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Medicare savings won’t make a dent in healthcare costs

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SUMMARY: Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is popular with voters because the media has been focused on the high price of some drugs, but this measure won’t lead to lower healthcare costs. If pharma is a business, they will find a way to develop, buy, or acquire new drugs. healthcare spending will reach $6.2

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The current pharma business model is unsustainable

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In pharma, growth depends on new products with hefty price tags when over 80% of voters want lower costs for their prescription drugs. Biogen’s failure should be a warning to other pharma companies. It should be a warning to other pharma companies. Now Biogen is a shell of a company selling off assets to survive.

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What do future healthcare CEOs look like?

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QUICK READ: The compensation for pharma CEOs is starting to be reported and it’s off the charts. American healthcare is in trouble. Pharma, PBM, and health insurance CEOs earn hundreds of millions of dollars to do one thing; make their companies a lot of money. Highest-paid CEOs in 2019: Who made the list from healthcare.

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Katie Porter attacks pharma

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SUMMARY: “How big pharma takeovers destroy innovation” a report from Congresswoman Porter does make some points. I always have pointed instances in which pharma puts Wall Street first and patients second. I have worked with and stayed in contact with some R&D people within pharma and they have a different answer.

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The best way to lower healthcare costs

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percent in 2015-2016. I’ve been a huge supporter of having pharma product websites include more health information, including informing people of the dangers of preventative health problems. Don’t tell me it’s not the job of pharma to help people get healthy; that’s a copout. percent in 2007-2008 to 39.6