After Hours: America’s Drug Price Disaster (Podcast)
Why drug prices skyrocketed after the Affordable Care Act and what you can do about it. Listen below:
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(WATCH) Prescription Drugs
Original air date: December 14, 2025 Many political leaders promise to lower drug costs, but few, if any, ever achieve the goal. During his term, President Biden signed major legislation allowing the government to negotiate lower prices directly with drug
Big Pharma loses in three court battles over Medicare drug price negotiations
The following is from Public Citizen. Three federal courts have rejected challenges to the Medicare drug price negotiation in separate cases over the last two days, marking a win for consumers and a blow to Big Pharma and the US Chamber
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After Hours: The Powerful, Unseen Middlemen Impacting Your Drug Prices (From the Archives)
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are powerful, unseen middlemen impacting drug prices in a big way. The debate is over whether they’re saving you money or costing you money— and possibly costing lives. Listen below:
(WATCH) The Middlemen
Original air date: Dec. 18, 2022 America is more medicated than ever before and, for many, the cost of prescriptions is growing out of reach. When it comes to drug prices, you may automatically think about the pharmacy, the insurance
Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs this month
A Trump-era rule sought to impose a “most favored nation” status on the prescription drug industry. It mandated that drug companies could not charge American citizens more than what’s charged in other countries for the same medicine. Currently, Americans “subsidize”
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After Hours: The Powerful, Unseen Middlemen Impacting Your Drug Prices (Podcast)
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are powerful, unseen middlemen impacting drug prices in a big way. The debate is over whether they’re saving you money or costing you money— and possibly costing lives.
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(READ) Senators: expensive drug ads target seniors; balloon taxpayer costs
Two senators, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), say they plan to introduce new legislation to expose “Pharma’s unfair drug advertising practices” and require disclosure of drug costs in TV ads. They say that will save taxpayers money. The
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