Big Pharma Has Raised The Prices Of 3,400 Drugs So Far This Year

July 29, 2019

In the first half of 2019, major pharmaceutical companies have raised the price of 3,400 different medications, with several dozen of those price increases being in the triple digit percentage. The average cost has increased by more than 4 times the rate of inflation, and the only reason this is happening is because they know they can get away with it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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