The Progressive Caucus is threatening to vote down a drug pricing bill important to Nancy Pelosi. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have backed them up.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mother of Insulin Victim on Pelosi’s Drug Price Bill: ‘It Wouldn’t Have Saved My Son’s Life’
The Lower Drug Costs Now Act, with its critical gaps and questionable strategy, is a microcosm of how House Democratic leaders have done policy all year.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Trump Poised to Give Big Pharma a Big Present in India Trade Deal
Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are discussing an agreement that would lock the world’s second-most-populous country into exclusive prescription drug arrangements.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Insulin Racket
Insulin is a 100-year-old drug whose wholesale price has tripled in ten years. The reasons why explain everything wrong with America’s broken prescription drug market.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Beyond the Planet of the Pharma Bros
A growing insulin crisis adds urgency to efforts to radically reform the prescription drug pipeline.
