BIG PHARMA AND FEDS BLOCKS GENERIC CANCER DRUGS
The high cost of cancer drugs is unsustainable and is a real threat to our health care system. Big Pharma uses several tactics: Pay-for-Delay, Product Hopping, no importation of prescription drugs.
The high cost of cancer drugs is unsustainable and is a real threat to our health care system. Big Pharma uses several tactics: Pay-for-Delay, Product Hopping, no importation of prescription drugs.
Big Pharma can dodge paying their fair share of taxes while enjoying aggressively priced products in the United States. The U.S. Government has always protected Big Pharma.
The Trans Pacific Partnership is a massive trade deal soon to be completed. The text of the international trade deal is a closely held secret. Members of the US Congress can read it only if they agree to leave all recording devices, pens and their staffers out of the room. The Trans Pacific Partnership is a bad trade deal for all Americans and the world at large. If the Congress does this, our health policy will be compromised for years.
The best part of the 21st Century Cures Act if enacted into law would be for an increased NIH funding. But the rest could lead to approval of drugs and devices that are not safe and not effective.
The federal government, the biggest payer of cancer care, made cancer costs soar because Medicare pays an extra $6500 a year when chemotherapy is given to a patient in a hospital owned facility. Private insurers also pay a higher premium for care delivered in a hospital setting. The costs will keep spiraling upward because of Government intrusion and clever lobbyists, forcing cancer patients from private practitioners to hospital owned facilities incurring much higher costs.