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CPPI Director
Jul 6, 20171 min read
NEW STUDY ON RISE OF GENERIC DRUG PRICES
Generic drugs often provide consumers with a low cost alternative to the exorbitantly high cost of brand name drugs. However, a new...
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CPPI Director
Jun 14, 20171 min read
WASHINGTON POST: BIG PHARMA’S INFLUENCE ON PHYSICIANS
Today, the Washington Post published an op-ed from a physician who has first-hand experience being influenced by Big Pharma’s gifts such...
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CPPI Director
Jun 13, 20171 min read
STAT NEWS: IT’S TIME TO MAKE IT LEGAL FOR AMERICANS TO IMPORT DRUGS
On Tuesday, Ed Silverman wrote that ‘it is time to scrap this prohibition’ on importing prescription drugs from abroad, unless Congress...
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CPPI Director
Jun 13, 20172 min read
SENATE HEARING ON HIGH COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing on the high cost of prescription drugs, which is the...
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CPPI Director
Jun 2, 20171 min read
READ BETWEEN THE LINES
When was the last time that you went to pick up your medication and negotiated what you pay the pharmacy? Negotiating prices between...
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CPPI Director
May 22, 20171 min read
PRESCRIPTION JUSTICE: WHY SOME AMERICANS DON’T BUY SAFE AND AFFORDABLE MEDICATION ONLINE
Recently, PharmacyChecker.com wrote about a Zogby Poll commissioned by Prescription Justice showing that more than 30% of Americans who...
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CPPI Director
May 15, 20171 min read
VOX: INSULIN DRUG PRICES TELL US A LOT ABOUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH DRUG PRICING IN AMERICA
Julia Belluz, in this Vox article, recalls a very different pricing strategy for prescription drugs – Doctors who refused to patent the...
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CPPI Director
May 5, 20171 min read
MORNING CONSULT OP-ED: SAFETY IS THE PRIORITY OF DRUG IMPORTATION
Today, CPPI Executive Director Tracy Cooley published an op-ed in Morning Consult on the importance of safety to daily personal...
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CPPI Director
May 1, 20171 min read
KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION POLL: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT DRUG IMPORTATION
Reposted with permission from the Kaiser Family Foundation A new Kaiser Family Foundation study highlights Americans’ perspective on...
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CPPI Director
Apr 28, 20171 min read
AN AMERICAN SICKNESS
Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal’s new book – An American Sickness – dives deeps into the medical system to...
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CPPI Director
Apr 28, 20171 min read
PHARMACYCHECKER.COM: PRICE SAVINGS FROM CANADIAN PHARMACIES AVERAGE 70%
Recently, PharmacyChecker.com released its quarterly International Drug Price Savings Report showing that Americans can potentially save...
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CPPI Director
Apr 20, 20171 min read
NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED: HOW TO STOP PRICE GOUGING
In today’s New York Times, Tim Wu challenges the Administration to do something about the high cost of drugs. The op-ed – How to Stop...
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CPPI Director
Apr 19, 20171 min read
BLOOMBERG: HOW DRUG-COMPANY ‘BENEVOLENCE’ SILENCES THE SICK
Bloomberg columnist Joe Nocera exposes questionable practices of a #BigPharma company in claiming a partnership with a patient advocacy...
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CPPI Director
Apr 13, 20171 min read
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: LET’S ADDRESS THE HIGH COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Today, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed from Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-8th) on the rising cost of prescription drugs. As...
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CPPI Director
Apr 7, 20171 min read
JOE NOCERA: DRUG LOBBY GETTING TOUCHY ABOUT DRUG PRICES
Bloomberg View Columnist Joe Nocera compares the drug lobby to big tobacco and Wall Street crooks who drove the country into a recession....
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CPPI Director
Mar 31, 20171 min read
HUFFINGTON POST: AMERICANS DEMAND LOWER DRUG PRICES
We could not have said it better ourselves, check out this lead-in paragraph in a recent Huffington Post story: It is morally wrong that...
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CPPI Director
Mar 22, 20171 min read
NEW AARP POLL: OLDER AMERICANS FRUSTRATED BY HIGH DRUG PRICES
This week, AARP released a report – Power of the 50-Plus Voter – showing that older Americans are frustrated over the high cost of...
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CPPI Director
Mar 17, 20171 min read
PERSONAL STORY: ACCESS TO MEDICINES SHOULD BE A RIGHT
Recently, The Chronicle in Greater Lewis County, Washington published a letter to the editor from a woman who imports her daily...
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CPPI Director
Mar 9, 20171 min read
RESEARCHERS TAKE DOWN BIG PHARMA’S R&D ARGUMENT
This week, Health Affairs published a new study that disproves Big Pharma’s long-standing position that high drug prices in the U.S. are...
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CPPI Director
Mar 3, 20172 min read
5 FACTS ABOUT PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION
These days, everyone is talking about the high cost of drugs, especially after the introduction of Senator Bernie Sanders’ new...
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