This is an interesting article.  It shows you several proposals that could help get this industry under control and help stop Americans from paying the most money in the world for medicines.

The US prescription drug pricing crisis is complex because of patent law, government regulation, and the lack of transparency about the pharmaceutical sector’s true costs and pricing processes. Following is my ranking of politicians’ proposals to lower drug prices.

States are pushing for transparency in corporations’ decisions on price-setting, reducing the cut taken by middlemen pharmacy benefit managers, and importing medicines from countries where prices are far lower. Real change has to happen at the federal level but importing would underscore the rigged nature of US drug pricing and help build momentum and local level activism.

Lawsuits and government investigations in multiple states are focused on alleged price-fixing in prescription drugs, with particular attention to insulin. None has yet yielded a verdict or a significant settlement. The problem is the difference between what legal in the US—yet is clearly immoral in its impact on violating people’s rights to health care and treatment.

The United States pays the highest drug prices in the world because it is the only country that prohibits its government from using its purchasing power to negotiate down prices. (Evidence of the effectiveness of Pharma’s powerful lobbying.)

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