Tag: pharmaceuticals
Taxpayers On the Hook for ‘Big Pharma’ Opioid Settlements
In 2008, as the financial sector was melting down, the federal government spent between between $20 and $36 trillion on corporate bailouts.
After the 2008 financial...
Exploitative Healthcare Costs Require Patients To Take Tough Stances (VIDEO)
It may come as no surprise that in America today profit reigns supreme.
Privatization has become so ingrained in our daily activities, we barely even...
The EpiPen Is Now Your Child’s Most Expensive Back-To-School Supply
Severe allergies are nothing to mess around with. They can turn any moment into a life-threatening situation at the drop of a hat. You have...
Surprising Twist: Drug Company Drops Patents To Increase Access To Meds...
A British pharmaceutical firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is dropping its patents in the world's poorest countries to increase access to affordable medicine.
Unlike many of its...
Drug Company Increases Cost Of Dying For Terminally Ill Patients
Yet another prescription drug vital to quality of life has had its price hiked to an outrageous amount due to pharmaceutical company greed.
One month...
‘Pharma Bro’ Tries To Win Over Reddit, Fails Epically
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli is best known for purchasing the rights to a potentially life-saving AIDS drug and jacking up prices from $13.50 to...
Skyrocketing Prescription Medication Prices Are Putting Lives At Risk
There are many things that qualify the United States as one of the most vile and amoral nations in the world, including, but not...
Pharmaceutical Corporations Face Wrath From Mayo Clinic
I don't keep my hatred of pharmaceutical corporations a secret. In a lot of respects, I liken them to oil corporations -- corrupt, profit-driven...
These Corporations Lead Their States in FY 2015 Revenue
The American business market is cutthroat capitalism, essentially modern piracy. Corporations establish prominence, but are at times, dethroned by other corporations as demand and...
