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November 16, 2009
Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform By DUFF WILSON NY Times Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which is on track to exceed $300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it is the highest annual rate of inflation for drug prices since 1992. The drug trend is distinctly at odds with the direction of the Consumer Price Index, which has fallen by 1.3 percent in the last year. Drug makers say they have valid business reasons for the price increases. Critics say the industry is trying to establish a higher price base before Congress passes legislation that tries to curb drug spending in coming years. “When we have major legislation anticipated, we see a run-up in price increases,” says Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical economics at the University of Minnesota. He has analyzed drug pricing for AARP, the advocacy group for seniors that supports the House health care legislation that the drug industry opposes. A Harvard health economist, Joseph P. Newhouse, said he found a similar pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to Medicare a few years ago, giving tens of millions of older Americans federally subsidized drug insurance. Just as the program was taking effect in 2006, the drug industry raised prices by the widest margin in a half-dozen years. “They try to maximize their profits,” Mr. Newhouse said. (Bend over a little more...) -- If you are flajim, herring, loogy, GC boater, johnson, topbassdog, rob, or one of a half dozen others, you're wasting your time by trying to *communicate* with me through rec.boats, because, well, you are among the permanent members of my dumbfoch dumpster. As always, have a nice, simple-minded day. |
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H the K wrote:
November 16, 2009 Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform By DUFF WILSON NY Times “They try to maximize their profits,” Mr. Newhouse said. DUH! you stir the hornets nest dum dum and the hornets get angry. you liberal assholes never learn, do you? |
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:08:50 -0500, achmed wrote:
H the K wrote: November 16, 2009 Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform By DUFF WILSON NY Times “They try to maximize their profits,” Mr. Newhouse said. DUH! you stir the hornets nest dum dum and the hornets get angry. you liberal assholes never learn, do you? We pay the highest rates in the world you silly dick. When we have the right to negotiate rates, they'll come down. You silly dick. Notice I didn't attach you to any group. Since you're just a silly dick. |
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On Nov 16, 12:13*pm, jps wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:08:50 -0500, achmed wrote: H the K wrote: November 16, 2009 Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform By DUFF WILSON NY Times “They try to maximize their profits,” Mr. Newhouse said. DUH! you stir the hornets nest dum dum and the hornets get angry. you liberal assholes never learn, do you? We pay the highest rates in the world yousillydick. *When we have the right to negotiate rates, they'll come down. *Yousillydick. Notice I didn't attach you to any group. *Since you're just asillydick. You like to make sexually charged insults and vulgarities towards others, and now you seem to be fascinated with male genitalia. I believe there is a pattern with you. |
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