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Prescription drugs
August 16, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
The Most Striking Proposals in Harris’s Economic Plan
Kamala Harris has released her economic agenda—and it would change everything.
August 15, 2024
Timothy Noah
Medicare Drug Discounts Have Arrived, and They’re a Big Bleeping Deal
Kamala Harris should talk about them in every speech.
February 1, 2024
Grace Segers
Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Make Big Pharma’s Greedheads Squirm
The senator spoke to TNR about how he’ll grill the CEOs of three drug manufacturers about their high prices.
March 9, 2023
Laura Weiss
Biden’s Proposal to Limit Online Prescribing Is a Raw Deal for the Most Vulnerable Patients
Once the Covid-19 emergency order is lifted, new restrictions proposed by the White House will make it harder for many to access the medications on which they depend.
August 15, 2022
Grace Segers
How Progressives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Inflation Reduction Act
Yes, Build Back Better eventually became Build Back Manchin, but for Democrats, it’s better than nothing.
November 29, 2021
Natalie Shure
Democrats Are Overselling Build Back Better’s Insulin Pricing Cap
Lawmakers are touting a proposed cap on prices, but the benefit won’t swing to the patients with the most desperate needs.
October 19, 2021
Daniel Strauss
Democrat Kurt Schrader Keeps Raking in Pharma Bucks
The congressman leading the fight to kill his party’s prescription drug proposal has been taking checks from pharmaceutical interests this whole time.
October 11, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Kyrsten Sinema, We’re Sick of Your Act
The Arizona senator wants to cut funding for climate-change policies and opposes a plan to rein in prescription drug prices. She doesn’t deserve the Democratic Party.
October 5, 2021
Natalie Shure
Big Pharma’s Revolving Door Is Imperiling Democracy
The industry’s titanic profits power a perpetual stranglehold over our government with only one goal in mind: raking you clean of every last dime.
June 28, 2021
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Libby Lewis
The Swashbuckling Lawyer Who’s Taking on the Sackler Family
Thanks to one judge, members of the family that made billions from OxyContin could escape justice for their role in the opioid epidemic. Mike Quinn may be the best hope of holding them to account.
September 20, 2019
Libby Watson
Democrats’ Drug Price Bill May Be Dead on Arrival
After a nine month effort to produce a bill that Trump might support, it looks like Nancy Pelosi outfoxed herself.
September 16, 2019
Dana Brown
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Isaiah J. Poole
The Case for a Public Option for the Drug Industry
The controversial proposed deal with Purdue Pharma hints at better alternatives to for-profit pharmaceutical companies.
June 3, 2019
Alex Pareene
Do Democrats Actually Want to Make Drugs Cheaper?
Or are they just looking to cut a deal for the sake of cutting a deal?
January 30, 2019
David Dayen
Democrats Are About to Give Big Pharma the Big Tobacco Treatment
The House of Representatives' first oversight hearing of 2019 wasn't about Trump. It was about skyrocketing drug prices.
May 10, 2018
Fran Quigley
Building a NASA for Prescription Drugs
A bold solution to America's soaring drug prices
January 12, 2017
Alex Shephard
Cory Booker’s explanation for voting against cheap prescription drugs doesn’t track.
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