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Do prescription drug middlemen help keep prices high?
Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any country in the world, and the pharmaceutical industry earns billions in profits each year. Critics blame pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, for a portion of those high costs through their role as…
Justice Department announces crackdown on fraudulent opioid prescriptions
Federal agencies on Thursday announced charges in what Attorney General Jeff Sessions called “the largest health care fraud takedown in American history,” an investigation into over $2 billion in alleged fraud by doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.
Column: Not sure what to make of Trump’s drug prices plan? Here’s where to start
Rushing to judgment is misguided. There are no quick fixes here, and while the Trump proposals are viewed as fatally flawed by many experts, they also include some worthy ideas.
Nevada bill would require insulin makers to post profits
The cost of insulin medications has steadily risen over the past decade by nearly 300 percent.
More than 1,300 lobbyists roamed the halls of Congress on the 21st Century Cures Act, and disclosure reports show most of them were working for pharmaceutical companies.
The superbug is a reminder of the unintended consequences of the modern quest for productivity. Barring a solution, it will take an enormous toll.
The absence of drug-pricing proposals from the GOP contenders illustrates how hard it would be for Sanders or Clinton to get Congressional approval should they win office.
In our news wrap Thursday, embattled ex-Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli pleaded the Fifth when called to testify before Congress on drug pricing protocols. Also, 12.7 million Americans signed up for private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act this…
In the 1980s, a law was passed to persuade pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for small populations, but now that rule is being used to reclaim old "orphaned" drugs in order to raise prices and profits. Gwen Ifill learns more…
