News | Environment & Health A New Report Shows How Big Pharma Is Price Gouging Cancer Patients Many with cancer in the U.S. may soon see long-overdue relief thanks to provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams June 14, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Sanders Will Block Health Nominees Until Biden Offers Plan to Lower Drug Prices As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has the unilateral power to block health-related nominees. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 13, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Sanders Reintroduces Proposal to Slash Medicare Drug Prices in Half “There is no rational reason, other than greed, for Medicare to pay twice as much” for drugs, Sanders said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 5, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Sanders Calls for All Drug Prices to Be Cut After Third Insulin Maker Cuts Price Moreover, analyses of the companies’ price cuts show that the cuts aren’t as altruistic as they might seem. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 17, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Big Pharma and GOP Open About Plans to Obstruct Medicare Drug Price Reforms While the reforms are less ambitious than what progressives wanted, they could still have a significant impact on costs. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams December 29, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Pharma Claims Drug Price Reform Hurts Innovation. Experts Say That’s “Bullshit.” As the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures, pharmaceutical companies made specious arguments. By Arthur Allen , KaiserHealthNews August 12, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Pharma Complains of “Tragic Loss” as Dems Take Modest Action to Curb Drug Prices The Inflation Reduction Act requires Medicare to negotiate the prices of a small number of prescription drugs. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams August 8, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Schumer: Inflation Reduction Act Has Votes to Pass After Concessions to Sinema Democrats removed a proposal to block hedge fund managers from dodging millions in taxes on Sinema’s behalf. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout August 5, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections GOP Opposition to Drug Pricing Bill Shows Scope of Big Pharma’s Grip on Congress Republicans are opposing legislation that would lower drug costs for millions. By Sasha Abramsky , Truthout July 28, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Sanders: Democrats’ Drug Pricing Plan “Goes Nowhere Near as Far as It Should” Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested that pharmaceutical industry lobbying weakened the proposal. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams July 27, 2022 Truthout