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Prescription drug costs in the US

dimanche 21 juin 2015 à 14:00

Prescription drugs cost Americans twice what they cost in other developed countries, because the US lets pharma companies charge whatever they like.

Pharma companies say they need all this money for research, but the new drugs that cure formerly incurable diseases are developed mainly with government research funds. The companies spend more on advertising. They corrupt medical journals to overstate the effectiveness of drugs, so we must not leave the testing of drugs in their hands.

The TPP will impose a similar deadly policy on the other countries that sign it. That would amount to mass murder.