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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

The United States is the only developed country in the world that does not control prescription drug prices. Only the United States and one other country, New Zealand, allow drugmakers to advertise to consumers. The industry has also won new laws that have added years to the average length of time their products are protected from competition by patents. Another law allowed the companies to profit from medical discoveries made by taxpayer-funded scientists.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

In the debate over prescription drug prices, drug safety, and oversight from the FDA, the assumption has been that everybody has access to the same data and that everybody, from drug safety officers to doctors to insurers, is equally capable of assessing the merits and dangers of a drug. That's not the case. In fact, maybe the real problem with prescription drugs, and indeed with medical technology in general, is not so much that they cost too much or that they're too dangerous or that they don't always work the way they're supposed to.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Why are prescription drug prices rising four times faster than inflation? Why does the FDA enforce a drug market monopoly by insisting that Americans should not be able to buy the exact same drugs from Canada or other countries? Why do Big Pharma CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars in salaries each year, even while our nation's elderly are so financially burdened by prescription drug prices that they sometimes have to choose between food and medicine?

Where's the health in health care reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They would love for everybody to just keep arguing over who's paying these sky-high prescription drug prices while ignoring the simple fact that prevention programs and junk food advertising bans could make prescription drugs practically irrelevant. Of course, all these drug companies say they need the money to "find a cure for cancer." What a brilliant con! You don't need to find a cure for cancer if you stop poisoning the public with the national food supply. You don't need a cure for cancer if nobody has cancer.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts

The council had taken on the state of Virginia's Board of Pharmacy for its rules forbidding advertising of prescription drug prices by retail pharmacists. Like similar laws in many other states, the pharmacy board had long held that advertising of prescription drugs would cause too much competition, resulting in the degradation of pharmacy professionalism and, eventually, the destruction of the pharmacist-customer relationship. In essence, people would lose respect for the profession if it advertised.

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Why do Big Pharma CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars in salaries each year, even while our nation's elderly are so financially burdened by prescription drug prices that they sometimes have to choose between food and medicine? Why do consumers buy into the awkward notion that we should all over-pay for prescription drugs so that drug companies can fund the R&D to find future cures? Are they going to give away those future drugs? Of course not: They'll charge for them and profit from them. Consider all your options: whole foods, herbs, vitamins and exercise.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

But if prescription drug prices give you a headache, beware. One of the most successful migraine medicines, Imitrex (sumatriptan), will cost you nearly $20 a tablet. HEAD-TO-HEAD People don't mind paying top dollar if they believe they are getting their money's worth. That's why so many consult Consumer Reports magazine when they are trying to decide what microwave oven, digital camera, or cell phone to purchase. Consumers Union makes an effort to test many of the brands buyers are likely to find in their local stores.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Some state legislatures are crafting measures that would permit them to regulate prescription drug prices for state employees, Medicaid recipients, and the uninsured. Like managed care plans, they are creating formularies of preferred drugs. The industry is fighting these efforts tooth and nail— mainly with its legions of lobbyists and lawyers. It fought the state of Maine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2003 upheld Maine's right to bargain with drug companies for lower prices, while leaving open the details.

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Americans paid over 50 percent more than Europeans for identical drugs, and 32 percent more than Canadians. U.S. prescription drug prices seemed almost impervious to the market forces affecting most other products Americans bought; because doctors and patients were so clueless about what drugs cost, there had been little pressure on pharmaceutical companies to compete on price. It was not uncommon for a new me-too drug to enter the market at a price as high as, or even higher than, the drug it had been developed to compete against.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

America; prescription drug prices rose about three times higher than inflation between 1980 and 1990 as drug makers boasted annual profits three times higher than the national average for Fortune 500 companies. Further, drug companies spend about $13,000 per U.S. physician in marketing, about 22% of their total sales (about $75.2 billion worldwide) on promotion, and $231 million to develop and patent a single drug. It's not as if the exceptionally high drug profits are making life any easier for the sick. Patients pay exorbitantly for these "modern medical miracles.

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