- US taxpayers — through NIH — funded the basic research behind ALL the new prescription drugs approved by the FDA in years 2000-2016. But Americans spend $500 billion a year on Rx drugs every year! https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329 9 comments economy
Linking pages
- Merck wants Americans to pay $712 for a Covid drug that taxpayers helped develop | David Sirota | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/merck-drug-prices-us-healthcare-big-pharma 467 comments
- Big Pharma Is Pushing a Big Lie | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/153864/innovation-drug-price-myth 42 comments
- Hiltzik: Will the U.S. lose its COVID-19 vaccine investment? - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-16/who-owns-the-covid-vaccines 12 comments
- Opinion | How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/opinion/drug-pricing-senate-hearing.html 9 comments