tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171099677001089684.post6035518276627628655..comments2024-03-24T06:52:37.794-05:00Comments on Global Peace: Doctors Protest Big PharmaTim Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02742535727024329491noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171099677001089684.post-44546611810939653762015-07-26T09:13:56.980-05:002015-07-26T09:13:56.980-05:00Tefferi blamed drug company greed, physicians who ...Tefferi blamed drug company greed, physicians who are too quick to prescribe new drugs without proven efficacy, health insurers willing to go along with pricing with upwards of $3,000-a-month co-pays, and a lack of federal government oversight adding checks and balances to a Wild West of drug pricing, especially for the federal health plan for seniors, Medicare, which is barred from negotiating Tim Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02742535727024329491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171099677001089684.post-3043392704407842522015-07-26T09:13:19.039-05:002015-07-26T09:13:19.039-05:00“In the United States, the average price of new ca...“In the United States, the average price of new cancer drugs increased 5- to 10-fold over 15 years, to more than $100,000 per year in 2012,” the article said. “The cost of drugs for each additional year lived (after adjusting for inflation) has increased from $54,000 in 1995 to $207,000 in 2013. This increase is causing harm to patients with cancer and their families.”<br /><br />“Cancer is a Tim Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02742535727024329491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171099677001089684.post-53399549712821666022015-07-26T09:12:46.439-05:002015-07-26T09:12:46.439-05:00Americans diagnosed with cancer are at risk of los...Americans diagnosed with cancer are at risk of losing their life savings because cancer drug costs are escalating almost as fast as the worst forms of the disease, according to a Mayo Clinic medical journal article decrying these costs signed by scores of nationally known oncologists.Tim Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02742535727024329491noreply@blogger.com