prescription drug pricing
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Colorado prescription board votes to limit cost of rheumatoid arthritis drug
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Colorado became the first state in the nation to set a price cap on a specific medication last week, following a unanimous decision by the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board to cap the cost of a drug used to treat inflammatory conditions. On Oct. 3, the board voted to set an upper payment limit (UPL)…
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IN RESPONSE: We need transparency now in prescription-drug pricing
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As a Type 1 diabetic, I have a choice: inject insulin or die. Every day for the last 46 years, I have injected insulin; if I go 24 hours without it, I will die a horrible death. When insulin was discovered in the 1920s, the patent was sold for one dollar. The researchers wanted to…
