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“I Didn’t Serve, I Was Used”: How Veterans Are Losing the War at Home
Ann Jones examines schemes seeking to use veterans for corporate interests and dismantle the VA system in the name of privatized profits.
Big Pharma Increased Price of Life-Saving EpiPen by Over 450 Percent
Americans are being forced to pay hundreds of dollars for a common life-saving product that has been on the market since 1977.
Disgusted With Sky-High Drug Prices, California Voters Take On Big Pharma
Prop 61 gives California voters a chance to start the process of finally reining in monopoly-fueled medicine prices.
End Price-Gouging on Drugs Developed With Public Dollars
Why should the drug industry be the exclusive financial beneficiary of research that the public helps fund? The public should benefit as well.
A Surprise Shill for Big Pharma?
Patients groups are the focus of a new report that asks questions about ties to corporate pharmaceutical companies.
The $100,000-Per-Year Pill: How US Health Agencies Choose Pharma Over Patients
Our taxes pay for most of the front end (riskier) research on drugs, so why do private companies get to set the price?
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Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC
AARP isn't exactly hiding its new financial relationship with ALEC.
ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal and Other Corporate Funders
Like ALEC, Mike Pence has cast his lot with industry, peddling deceptive claims like smoking doesn't cause cancer and opposing laws to reduce gun violence.
Big Pharma Feels the Bern
The entities that are really getting rich off the commons are the corporations and corporate executives.
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Monsanto, Bayer and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Critics note that of the hundreds of millions in tax revenues that AUMA is expected to generate, not a penny will go to the California general fund.