“This highlights just how dysfunctional the system is, and it just isn’t working for patients,” Albritton said. Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Kip Burgess was relieved last year when pharmaceutical giant Amgen overnighted him a $2,976 check to help pay for his go-to arthritis […]
High drug prices surfaced as a major campaign issue in 2018. With almost half of Americans saying they were worried about prescription drug costs last summer, many Democrats told voters they’d tackle the issue in the next Congress. But the large amount of money going […]
Empowered by voters outraged over Republican attempts to chip away at the law’s protections for the sick, Democrats owe much of their midterm takeback to health care issues. Emmarie Huetteman, KHN For the first time since passing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats will soon control […]
Since the beginning of last year, 34 lawmakers have each received more than $100,000 from pharmaceutical companies. Two of those — Reps. Greg Walden of Oregon, a key Republican committee chairman, and Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican majority leader — each received more […]
“You have to pay the $7,600 out-of-pocket before your insurance is even going to kick in,” she recalled telling him. Alec decided going uninsured would be more manageable. Although there might have been cheaper alternatives for his insulin supply that Alec could have worked out […]
That stance, however, was at odds with its financial support of another group, the American Action Network, which was heavily involved in that effort to put an end to the ACA, often referred to as Obamacare, spending an estimated $10 million on an ad campaign […]
Promises by the pharmaceutical industry to contain prices are a familiar — and fleeting — phenomenon, say analysts who have watched the unstoppable rise in drug costs over the years. Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Prescription drug prices […]
A group of doctors from the U.S. and Canada proposed this week pharmaceutical reforms that would slash costs, improve access and increase safety of prescription medications in both nations. The group, Physicians for a National Health Program, released the proposal, “Healing an ailing pharmaceutical system: […]
