Showing posts with label 000 FDA rules giving exclusive rights to one drugmaker send prices skyward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 000 FDA rules giving exclusive rights to one drugmaker send prices skyward. Show all posts

Friday, July 5, 2013

ORIENT: How to make a $300 drug cost $30,000 FDA rules giving exclusive rights to one drugmaker send prices skyward


As though double-digit increases in insurance premiums weren’t enough, how about triple-digit cost inflation for drugs? It is really simple to do, and the U.S. Senate is about to do it.
If you’re a drug manufacturer, and you’d like to make 100 times more than a person would otherwise have to pay for a drug, get Congress to expand the tremendous power of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), perhaps already the most powerful anti-competitive force on the planet.
The proposed bill is S. 959, the Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act, also known as the “FDA power-grab bill,” still another example of “never letting a crisis go to waste.”


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