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The week in healthcare reform
“…a cautionary tale about the power of the pharmaceutical lobby and drugmakers to use massive campaign contributions and armies of lobbyists to rig laws and rip off consumers.”
Let’s Deal a Blow to Big Pharma
Jacobin | David Sirota | June 3, 2021
“As both distributor and pharmacy, CVS was in a unique position to monitor and stop the peddling of these highly-addictive drugs from their stores, yet they ignored their own safeguard systems.”
Kentucky Sues CVS, Says It Fueled Opioid Epidemic
Ralph Ellis | Web MD |June 3, 2021
“It ‘appears that AbbVie shifts profits offshore while reporting a domestic loss in the United States to avoid paying U.S. corporate income taxes.’”
It’s Not Just Pricing and Patenting. Now, AbbVie’s Taxes Are the Target of Congressional Scrutiny
Fierce Pharma | Noah Higgins-Dunn | June 2, 2021
“If I have health, I have the ability to compete for all other civic opportunities as society has to offer. Without it, all else is meaningless.”
Structural Racism: Medicine Forges a Path Forward
Medpage Today | Taylor Sisk | June 2, 3021
“…senior care facilities are still experiencing scattered outbreaks that are largely blamed on unvaccinated staff members.”
Despite Vaccines, Nursing Homes Struggle with Outbreaks
Associated Press | Susan Haigh | June 1, 2021
“PhRMA spent just over $8.5 million on lobbying over the course of the first three months of 2021 … the organization spent over $25 million in 2020 and nearly $30 million in 2019 on lobbying-related expenditures.”
Big Pharma Lobbyists Launch Campaign Against Biden Over Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver
CNBC | Brian Schwartz | June 1, 2021
“When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.”
The Death of Hahnemann Hospital
The New Yorker | Chris Pomorski | May 31, 2021
“AbbVie is one of 33 member companies of the industry’s top lobbying group, PhRMA, which raised nearly $450 million from membership dues in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available.”
Pharma Giant AbbVie Funds Ads Attacking Prescription Drug Bill — After Hiking Prices Up to 470%
Salon | Igor Derysh | May 26, 2021
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