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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2015, 04:28 PM Sep 2015

Big Pharma Greed: Your Generic Drugs Are Getting More Expensive

The pharmaceutical industry holds enormous power over our health, our politicians, and even our economy. With their products being a necessity for a large part of the population, they have the ability to charge exorbitant amounts of money for their products, with the only relief for consumers coming in the form of generics. But today, that relief is disappearing.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and attorney Stephen Burg discuss how this is happening.

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Big Pharma Greed: Your Generic Drugs Are Getting More Expensive (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2015 OP

Luckily, they are also using ALEC to cut the right to recover ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2015 #1

Nation of the Chronically Sick, and Pharmaceutically Medicated for PROFIT $$. Got to end! appalachiablue Sep 2015 #2

Regulations of Big Pharma was NOT included in the ACA. . . . citizen blues Sep 2015 #3

ChairmanAgnostic

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1. Luckily, they are also using ALEC to cut the right to recover

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Thu Sep 10, 2015, 04:41 PM

Sep 2015

when their medical devices or drugs hurt rather than help. (which happens all too frequently)

appalachiablue

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2. Nation of the Chronically Sick, and Pharmaceutically Medicated for PROFIT $$. Got to end!

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Thu Sep 10, 2015, 07:37 PM

Sep 2015

citizen blues

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3. Regulations of Big Pharma was NOT included in the ACA. . . .

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Fri Sep 11, 2015, 11:33 AM

Sep 2015

because that's why Big Pharma supported it! Now, they certainly are price gauging people out of their meds. For example, I take the generic form of Singulair, Montelukast, which is for asthma. The price WAS $30; now it's $154. I am an adjunct faculty that can have enough classes to qualify for benefits one term, but not the next. It's really difficult with fluctuating income to buy insurance under the ACA. So for me, this hits me right where I live because asthma meds are not an option!

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