Australia is paying up to 64 times too much for prescription drugs and wasting in excess of $A1billion a year or $3.5million a day, according to a report for the Grattan Institute think tank. The report, which compared drug prices paid by the federal government under the Pharmaceutical ...
While not a new concept, drug rationing across the United States has become an increasingly critical issue. In another tale about the dangers of high prescription drug costs, researchers published an article inJAMA Network Openexplaininghowdrug prices impact medication adherence, ...
ImportanceIn the US, many patients struggle to afford prescription drugs, leading to adverse health outcomes. To improve cost-related medication nonadherence, prescribers and clinical staff must understand how to assist patients in overcoming high prescription drug costs. ObservationsWe reviewed the benefi...
This problem is not unique to Medicare. This is something that everyone who has health insurance coverage is facing, and frankly, all Americans are facing. A message we always like to drive home when it comes to prescription drug costs is that it’s an issue that affects everyone. You’re...
Prescription Drug Prices doctors‚ about the cost or their medicine‚ the side effects‚ and what’s in their medicine. Medicine is so expensive because prices are generally shaped by what the market will bear‚ drugmakers and some economists argue that price controls or other efforts aim...
The struggle to rein in high prescription drug prices has reached the U. S. Congress, but to no avail. U. S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) last year introduced the Prescription Drug Affordability and Access Act, which would have created “an independent agency—the Bureau of Prescript...
at different costs. Although prices are often justified by the high cost of drug development, there is no evidence of an association between research and development costs and prices; rather, prescription drugs are priced in the United States primarily on the basis of what the market will bear....
even some of them cannot afford and end up dying. According to a survey, fourteen percent of patients gave up filling the prescription due to high prices. For example, insulin is a life-saving drug in diabetes treatment. However, in the US, insulin price has sharply increased by 270% duri...
High prescription drug prices are sustained by the fact that treatments for serious disease are not luxury items, but are needed by vulnerable patients who seek to improve the quality of life or to prolong life. A high price is not a barrier. For serious diseases, patients and their families...
The Affordable Prescription Drugs Act: a solution for today's high prescription drug prices I. INTRODUCTION As we move forward into a new millennium, a large number of Americans,... JD Pinzone - 《Journal of Law & Health》 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in ...