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Why Drugs Cost So Muchby Rhona Finkel on August 17, 2012 Tweet It's the rare American (or one with phenomenally good health insurance) who hasn't griped at least once about the cost of prescription medication. Currently, U.S. health care costs are rising faster than general inflation--...
In February,Congress called in executivesfrom seven of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and asked them: why do drugs here cost so much? The drugmakers’ answer is that America is carrying the cost of research and development for the rest of the world. They argue that if Americans...
In 2014, the price of one kind of insulin increased by nearly 50 percent, even though it had already been on the market for more than a decade. A new study published in the journal Health Affairs finds that some drugs cost more because manufacturers are
Why does insulin cost so much to patients in the USA and around the world? Why is insulin, a widely sold drug of which most forms are now off-patent, so incredibly expensive? These are simple questions, but ones with a number of complicated answers. This post will break some of those ...
The Costs of Drugs in Infectious Diseases: Branded, Generics, and Why We Should Care While health care providers have largely turned a blind eye, the cost of health care in the US has been skyrocketing, in part as a result of rising drug prices. Patent protections and market exclusivity, ...
The ASHP said most shortages involve low-cost generic drugs, particularly sterile injectables used in hospital treatments and procedures, such as baseline cancer therapies and intravenous antibiotics. Some of these medications have no alternatives, forcing hospitals and doctors to ration medica...
the government regulates drug prices based on the benefit they provide to patients. By contrast, American companies often charge much higher prices for drugs than it costs to produce them. This is largely due to the high cost of testing and approval required for drugs before they rele...
The hospital charged about $1,000 for the first hour of chemo infusion, which is more than twice the rate at the Seattle clinic. One of the drugs cost $714, more than three times the price at the clinic. It was even the tiniest things: The hospital charged $19.15 for Benadryl, about...
Pharmaceutical companies take the position that higher drug prices in the U.S. are needed for them to invest in research and development (R&D) to make new drugs. The pharmaceutical industry often throws around the figure, $2.6 billion, as the cost of developing a new drug. That number is ...