‘Eye-Popping Rip-Off’: Americans Pay Nearly Double Rest of World Combined for Top Meds

‘Eye-Popping Rip-Off’: Americans Pay Nearly Double Rest of World Combined for Top Meds https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/30/eye-popping-rip-americans-pay-nearly-double-rest-world-combined-top-meds
As public health advocates fumed over efforts by right-wing congressional Democrats to water down prescription drug pricing reforms proposed in their own party’s flagship Build Back Better package, a report published Thursday by a leading progressive advocacy group revealed that Americans are paying nearly twice as much for the 20 bestselling medications as the rest of the world combined.
The Public Citizen report, entitled United We Spend, compares U.S. revenue from the top 20 “blockbuster” drugs …

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2021-10-01 00:43:00