SUMMARY: The pharma industry is responsible for its low ratings. The industry has done nothing to acknowledge that they are listening to the concerns of the public and continues to focus on one thing: profits.
Big Pharma
- Big Pharma is evading culpability for the crisis of rising prescription drug prices by point the finger at others, namely pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
- Many drugs receive no rebates at all, including 89 percent of Medicare Part D prescriptions. For new drugs, where the price tag can run into the hundreds of thousands a year, rebates are rarely offered because there is no direct competition in the space.
- Putting profits before people is what big Pharma does. Brand name drug makers have hiked the prices of their products at 10 times the rate of inflation over the last five years.
- Drugmakers historically have blamed higher prices on the costs of research and development but didn’t use
and of the $7 billion tax benefit to increase R&D.