TheAltWorld America’s Healthcare Heist: How Big Pharma Keeps Drug Prices Soaring
- Rania Khalek
- Wednesday 13 Sep 23
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Drugmakers are up in arms over a new program letting Medicare negotiate lower prices for a handful of medicines.
Andrew Perez, a Senior Editor and Reporter at The Lever, discusses his new article, Big Pharma’s American Con, in which he reveals that the drugs up for negotiation are being sold for significantly less in other countries, leaving Americans to pay up to 1,000% more for the same drug.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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