- President Donald Trump in May said that drugmakers would soon announce “massive” price cuts but they aren’t in the loop.
- Bayer raised the price of two cancer drugs by hundreds of dollars in May and Novartis followed by boosting four pricey treatments in June. [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]Pfizer, one of the largest U.S. pharma companies, announced increases on more than 41 products this week.[/inlinetweet]
- [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]A Wells Fargo report found 104 price increases in June and the first two days of July[/inlinetweet], with an average jump of 31.5 percent and a median increase of 9.4 percent. That followed 48 increases in May.