#PrescriptionDrugs

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but."<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-hhs-fda-deep-state-00286826" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-hhs-fda-deep-state-00286826</a><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDA</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PrescriptionDrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrescriptionDrugs</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhRMA</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misinformation</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴It's absurd that Bernie Sanders is labeled as a "socialist" or "communist" when he merely advocates for basic standards that many of us in Europe have enjoyed for decades.<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernie</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Sanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sanders</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Rich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rich</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Billionaires</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/BillionairePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BillionairePolitics</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeCanDoBetter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeCanDoBetter</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Disagreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disagreement</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Truth</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Speach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Speach</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WorkingFamily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkingFamily</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Family</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkingClass</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthCare</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/PrescriptionDrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrescriptionDrugs</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Prescriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prescriptions</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Drugs</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homeless</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HousingCrisis</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crisis</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wealth</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Inauguration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inauguration</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Horrific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Horrific</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrillBabyDrill</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Issues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Issues</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Community</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/BuyElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BuyElections</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Panic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Panic</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrders</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Organize</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Friends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friends</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economic</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Social</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Racial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racial</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environmental</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Justice</a>

Kim PeralesMany of Trump’s voters will be surprised when they discover that their prescription drug costs have skyrocketed. “Trump’s Make Drug Prices High Again EO rescinded the BIden-Harris order to lower drug costs - to cap the co-payment for generic medications at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries.” -S Kennedy<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PrescriptionDrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrescriptionDrugs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-rolls-back-effort-to-lower-medicare-medicaid-drug-costs-c6d2b53d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-rolls-back-effort-to-lower-medicare-medicaid-drug-costs-c6d2b53d</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The Federal Trade Commission today published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty generic drugs, including significant price markups by PBMs for cancer, HIV, and a variety of other critical drugs.Staff’s latest report found that the ‘Big 3 PBMs’—Caremark Rx, LLC (CVS), Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI), and OptumRx, Inc. (OptumRx)—marked up numerous specialty generic drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by thousands of percent, and many others by hundreds of percent. Such significant markups allowed the Big 3 PBMs and their affiliated specialty pharmacies to generate more than $7.3 billion in revenue from dispensing drugs in excess of the drugs’ estimated acquisition costs from 2017-2022. The Big 3 PBMs netted such significant revenues all while patient, employer, and other health care plan sponsor payments for drugs steadily increased annually, according to the staff report. “The FTC staff’s second interim report finds that the three major pharmacy benefit managers hiked costs for a wide range of lifesaving drugs, including medications to treat heart disease and cancer,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC should keep using its tools to investigate practices that may inflate drug costs, squeeze independent pharmacies, and deprive Americans of affordable, accessible healthcare—and should act swiftly to stop any illegal conduct.”"<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-releases-second-interim-staff-report-prescription-drug-middlemen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-releases-second-interim-staff-report-prescription-drug-middlemen</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FTC</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigPharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigPharma</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BPMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPMs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PrescriptionDrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrescriptionDrugs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a>

The Conversation U.S.What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/drugprices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drugprices</a> for everyone <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-are-pharmacy-benefit-managers-a-health-economist-explains-how-lack-of-competition-drives-up-drug-prices-for-everyone-236772" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/what-are-pharmacy-benefit-managers-a-health-economist-explains-how-lack-of-competition-drives-up-drug-prices-for-everyone-236772</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthinsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthinsurance</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/prescriptiondrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prescriptiondrugs</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#prescriptiondrugs