Big Pharma raises prices on more than 1,000 drugs

Hello signalmankenneth,

signalmankenneth said:
Big Pharma is really running some dick up the American people's ass?!!

Drugmakers are starting 2019 with a slew of price hikes affecting more than 1,000 medications.:whoa:

The average increase amounts to about 6 percent, said Michael Rea, founder and CEO of RX Savings Solutions, which sells software that helps employers and health plans analyze drug prices. Among the best-known drugs getting costlier are the opioid OxyContin, with a 9.5 percent jump, and the blood thinner Pradaxa, up 8 percent.

Those increases underscore the challenges facing consumers and health care plans as drug costs far outpace the rate of inflation or wage growth. Americans spent $535 billion on prescription drugs last year, an increase of 50 percent since 2010, according to one estimate.

"A 9 percent increase isn't just over inflation -- it's four times inflation," Rea noted. "No matter what, that effect is felt by consumers, by payers and the solvency of public and private health plans."

Inflation around the U.S. remains around 2 percent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...on-more-than-1000-drugs/ar-BBRIMGg?li=BBnb7Kz
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Get everybody jacked up on low drug prices and then jack up the drug prices?

Looks like they learned their chops from street drug dealers.
 
Dark Soul said:
That's funny, since unlike you I never wish or want a politician to do anything for me. Except of course, to get out of the way. I'm the polar opposite of a liberal, remember?
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Polar opposite of a Christian.

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Hello rjhenn,

-Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot:
"Then don't buy them."

rjhenn said:
That would require that there be alternatives.

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Oh, there you go, caring about people.

Capitalism has no concern for individuals.

That would be like asking greedy people to choose between getting rich and being nice.
 
rjhenn said:
Unrestrained capitalism produces epic amounts of misery and poverty every time it's tired. Our own 19th century demonstrated that. It was only after it was properly restrained that we got the economic freedom that is now under assault. Righties refuse to learn from history.

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Who's advocating zero regulation?
 
tinfoil said:
LOL I have to admit your quote was overly broad and it was fair to make the case that was made. Unrestrained capitalism is indeed something to avoid
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Liberals like to assume the extreme and I enjoy watching them do it. Nothing is more entertaining than watching a liberal blow a gasket.
 
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