In 2004 they supported it: When they were members of Congress, President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel strongly backed measures to legalize the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other nations. On Tuesday, the Obama administration–siding with the drug industry–thwarted a bid by a bipartisan group of Senators to add the […]
Anyone shocked by this? 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 […]
You know the economy is getting bad when Hormel can’t produce Spam quick enough: The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all […]
To put the ineffectiveness of the new Medicare prescription program into perspective, needymeds.com has compiled a list of common medications and compared the cost to numerous other sources. Of the ten drugs listed (including Lipitor, Plavix, Prevacid and Zocor), Medicare-D offers the highest price. The cost for all ten drugs under the new Medicare program […]