Big Pharma's latest smokescreen: claiming that they give big drugstore chains so much discounts that price rises don't reach the pharma companies.

Even to the extent there is truth in this, it doesn't mean the system is ok. It permits horrible and sometimes deadly gouging.

We should replace the private negotiations that benefit a few giant chains of drugstores with a negotiation by the government that benefits all people that need medicines.

The government should make drug effect studies honest, by stopping Big Pharma from paying for those studies and taxing those companies instead to pay for them,