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US Could Fund Vaccines for Whole World by Taxing Billionaires’ COVID-Era Profits
The tax would raise $5.4 trillion in revenue and still leave the world’s billionaires about $55 billion richer.
Biden Will Enact Rule Proposed by Trump That Enables Big Pharma to Price Gouge
The rule will eliminate a key way of controlling the costs of drugs and other inventions built from federal research.
Sanders Op-Ed Pushes Medicare Expansions, Says Big Pharma Is “Ripping Off” Govt.
The senator says allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies could help pay for expansions.
Prescription Drugs in US Are Quadruple What They Cost Elsewhere, Report Finds
The report bolsters Sen. Bernie Sanders’s push to address inexcusably high prescription drug prices in the U.S.
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
“How many people need to get unnecessarily sicker before Congress is prepared to take on the greed?” Sanders asked.
Will Pharmaceutical Giants Use Patents to Limit Access to COVID Drugs?
Pharmaceutical giant Gilead is poised to make massive profits from patented COVID-19 drugs.
Before COVID-19, Big Pharma Was Neglecting Vaccine and Antiviral Research
Coronavirus is an opportunity to rake in public funding and turn out massive profits with few financial risks.
Biden and Buttigieg See Pharma Money as the Cure For Campaign Woes
Joe Biden is currently the Democratic candidate with the highest donations from the pharmaceutical industry.
Voters Say Congress Needs to Curb Drug Prices. Are Lawmakers Listening?
The odds look grim for Congress to pass significant drug pricing legislation this year.
Capitalism Is Dooming Kids With Curable Cancers
Medicare for All is our only ethical choice.