News | Politics & Elections Pharma Is Mobilizing to Tank Democrats’ Effort to Cut Prescription Drug Costs The pharmaceutical industry is mobilizing its army of lobbyists to attack Senate Democrats' Medicare drug pricing plan. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 21, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Report Says The pharmaceutical industry exercised its virtually unlimited pricing power to hike costs yet again this month. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 20, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health CBO: Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Would Save US Nearly $290 Billion The Democrats' proposal would impose punishment on pharmaceutical companies that increase prices faster than inflation. By Jon Queally , CommonDreams July 9, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Progressives Blast Manchin’s Hypocrisy in Calling for Lower Drug Prices People were quick to point out that Manchin blocked the Build Back Better Act that would have lowered drug prices. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams June 1, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Biden Can Reduce Prescription Drug Prices Without Congress, Warren Says The senator cites public health and legal experts who say that the executive branch can intervene without Congress. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout April 26, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Efforts to Limit Drug Prices Are Stalled — and Pharma Is Seizing an Opening Big Pharma is jacking up drug prices. Democrats worry their failure to curb prices will cost them seats in the midterms. By Igor Derysh , Salon February 3, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Pharma Hikes Cost of 866 Drugs While Lobbying to Kill Build Back Better Bernie Sanders condemned the price increases as "profoundly wrong" and called on Congress to act. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams January 31, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections If Dems Don’t Deliver on Health Care, They May Suffer in Midterms, Jayapal Warns Pharmaceutical companies are raising prices for prescription drugs at will and the party in power may face consequences. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams January 18, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Pfizer Starts the Year by Hiking Prices on 125 Drugs Pfizer and its subsidiaries weren't alone in raising drug costs for patients in 2022. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams January 13, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Pharma-Backed Group Hosted Dem Staffers at Resort Before Build Back Better Vote Center Forward has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads backing Democrats opposed to drug pricing reform. By Donald Shaw , Sludge December 11, 2021 Truthout