The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520239458 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 297 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Pharma are robbing us sick!" according to alex lawson. Pharmaceutical corporations are a racket. They force the American people to pay for our pharmaceutical drugs three times, first to develop the drug at national laboratories or through grants to universities, second tax payer dollars to grant and protect the monopolies, and finally in the astronomically higher drug prices we pay in America compared to anywhere else. Highly Recommended This is a superbly researched and well written book explaining the scamming of America by Big Pharma. We have the only government in the world which allows this industry to price gouge the citizenry. Please read this book and tell your friends.You can find out more about this issue at []. Not coherent The subject material, while interesting, is unfortunately presented in a redundant and disorganized fashion. The book reads more like a collection of stories than as a coherent whole.
Though the issue of drug costs has been discussed extensively in the media, Goozer’s study puts all the political chatter, news coverage and analysts’ reports into a context where they finally make sense. . A former Chief Economics Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and an award-winning journalist, Goozer writes with skill and elegance, incorporating anecdote and history in a way that enlivens his research and makes his book an engrossing read. All rights reserved. But Goozner argues that citizens are already paying much of that bill: taxpayer-financed medical research, he finds, has played a major role in each important medical discovery. From Publishers Weekly In this fascinating c
Pharmaceutical firms should be compelled to refocus their human and financial resources on true medical innovation, Goozner insists. This book is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politically charged topics of drug pricing, Medicare coverage, national health care, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in developing countries.. Goozner demonstrates that almost all the important new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and at the National Institutes of Health. A university biochemist who spent twenty years searching for a single blood protein that later became the best-se