Enlarge this image A vial of the Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, Bivalent. Though the shots are free to pretty much anyone who wants…
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Nearly $50,000 a week for a cancer drug? A man worries about bankrupting his family
by Fred Schulte February 14, 2023Enlarge this image Paul Davis is a retired physician in Findlay, Ohio, who gets weekly treatments of the drug Kimmtrak to help…
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Legal fights and loopholes could blunt Medicare’s new power to control drug prices
by Dan Gorenstein September 15, 2022Enlarge this image President Biden speaks during an event Tuesday celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on the South Lawn…
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AIDS Activists Take Aim At Gilead To Lower Price Of HIV Drug PrEP
by Selena Simmons-Duffin May 30, 2019Enlarge this image During testimony before a congressional hearing on drug prices this month, Dr. Aaron Lord (left), a patient advocate and…
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Enlarge this image Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, will lead the Senate Finance Committee’s questioning Tuesday of executives from pharmacy benefit managers about…
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Enlarge this image A medical assistant administers insulin to an adolescent patient who has Type 1 diabetes. Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager, Express…
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It Will Take More Than Transparency To Reduce Drug Prices, Economists Say
by Alison Kodjak March 22, 2019Enlarge this image One of the Trump administration’s proposals would change the prices Medicare pays for certain prescription drugs by factoring in…
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How Much Difference Will Eli Lilly’s Half-Price Insulin Make?
by Bram Sable-Smith March 10, 2019Enlarge this image Eli Lilly and Company, based in Indianapolis, is rolling out a half-price version of its insulin Humalog that will…