With some new, potentially lifesaving cancer dru
gs costing up to $138,000 a year, about 120 leading cancer specialists have joined forces in an unusual protest aimed at getting pharmaceutical companies to cut prices.Charging high prices for drugs cancer patients need to survive is like “profiteering” from a natural disaster by jacking up prices for food and other necessities, leading cancer doctors and researchers from around the world contend in a new paper published in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology.Of 12 new cancer drugs that received FDA approval last year, 11 of them cost in excess of $100,000 a year—prices that the specialists attack as “astronomical,” “unsustainable,” and maybe even immoral. What’s more, only three of these drugs were found to improve patient survival rates and of these, two only increased it by less than two months, according to theWashington Post.“Advocating for lower drug prices is a necessity to save the lives of patients,” say the specialists who wrote the paper, who specialize in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), but emphasize that sky-high drug costs affect patients with many types of cancer.
why make a drug designed to help treat one of or most potent killers and jack the price so only the top 1% can afford it? clearly these prices are aimed at insurance company pay outs which they probably get under the table kick backs to bribe legislators to deregulate and allow drugs not fully tested.
if current agencies stand kinda hard to rip off the people paying inflated cost for health care.
this is part of Bush's big pharma deal, thy work on the premise that the money is in the treatment not the cure, in comes ObamaCares and will tear that house of wood down so demonize , convince the people that what is good for them is really going to kill them thy got it right they just neglected to point out that it's their efforts to block and deny you healthcare that will really kill you.
