Many Best Selling Prescription Drug Patents Expiring - Much Cheaper Generics...
Within the next 14 months, patents will expire on 7 of the 20 best selling prescription drugs which will mean that much cheaper generic versions of the drugs will finally be available. This is good...
View ArticleRepublican Deadbeats
It began in the 1980s, as noted on January 24, 2011:Through the "golden years of the American middle class" - the 1940s through 1982 - the top income tax rate for the hyper-rich had been between 90 and...
View ArticleCornyn: 1 AM debt ceiling votes don't make sense. (But Medicare D ones do!)
Yeah, holding a vote in the middle of the night is crazy! And it makes no sense! And it's anti-American! And … and … and it's exactly what Republicans did when they were in charge.Medicare Part D...
View ArticleThrough the "Donut Hole"
So my wife's free lights are continuing their upward trend, and her doctor has recommended adding Vorinostat (Zolinza) to the mix (4 - 100 mg tablets per day for two weeks, then off a week). A recently...
View ArticleBig pharma Medicare Part D jackpot- $711 Billion
You know that program with the doughnut hole that takes cash directly out of the pocket of seniors and puts it in the already bulging bank accounts of the eleven largest pharmaceutical companies?The 11...
View ArticleReal Social Security Reform: Yummy, Yummy Donuts
I was going to write about the effect of Social Security "reform" on my generation -- the late Baby Boomers with little in common of our far more numerous forebears, which I learned here years ago had...
View ArticleBig Pharma Pockets $711 Billion in Profits by Robbing Seniors, Taxpayers
Here's an outrage that must be changed: Big Pharma has been systematically price-gouging the Medicare program for seniors and people with disabilities -- and raking in billions in excessive profits....
View ArticleOR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Co-Sponsors The Medicare Drug Savings Act
Some more great news from one of our favorite Senators: http://www.thelundreport.org/... Oregon could save anywhere from $325 to $766 million if Medicare were able to negotiate prescription drug...
View ArticleBig Pharma CEOs Rake in $1.57 Billion in Pay
For people who were blown away to learn recently that the 11 largest global pharmaceutical companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the last decade, here's another measure of the...
View ArticlePBS And NPR: Subsidiaries Of Koch Industries?
http://www.npr.org/...The story linked to above could be a prime example of a David Koch-funded NPR “news” story which means that NPR reporter Julie Rovner could be regarded as a Koch employee. Koch...
View ArticleWV-Sen: Join Jay Rockefeller's (D) Call To Stop Medicare Price Gouging
Received this e-mail today from Social Security Works regarding Medicare price gouging: Did you know that Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Did you know that since...
View ArticleDespite bungling Bush's Medicare drug rollout, GOP still attacks Obamacare...
In October, uninsured Americans will begin the process of selecting from health insurance plans offered in online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. While 16, mostly Democratic states are...
View ArticleRubio demands halt to $9 million Obamacare ad campaign
This week, the Republican crusade to undermine the Affordable Care Act went from the ridiculous to the sublime. Florida Senator and 2016 GOP White House hopeful Marco Rubio sent a letter to Health and...
View ArticleGOP, media forget Bush's Medicare navigators
In their latest effort to abort the Affordable Care Act, Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the states are targeting the "Obamacare navigators," the dozens of community groups, hospitals, charities and...
View ArticleBoehner, Cantor and McConnell raised debt ceiling by $800 billion to pay for...
With the federal government set to hit the limit of its borrowing authority as early as mid-October, Republicans are once again threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage. As the National Review...
View ArticleMedicare drug plan polling suggests bright future for Obamacare
Two new polls from Pew Research and NBC News/Wall Street are predictably prompting two very different reactions among supporters and foes of the Affordable Care Act. While the Washington Post's Sarah...
View Article10 things John Boehner doesn't want you to know about the debt
So it's come down to this. Once again kowtowing to the most extreme members of his Republican Party, House Speaker John Boehner is willing to shut down the federal government and trigger a global...
View ArticleNBC's Chuck Todd commits act of journalism
For the past week, NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd endured withering criticism for suggesting it is not the media's job to expose Republican lies about the Affordable Care Act or, for that matter,...
View ArticleBetter Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans
For two decades, Republicans have opposed health care reform not because they thought it would fail the American people, but because they feared it would succeed. Passage of Bill Clinton's health care...
View ArticleBoehner should pass same clean debt ceiling bill he gave Bush in 2004
Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling by Oct. 17, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned this week, the federal government will be unable to pay its bills. But while some Republicans like Rep. John...
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