'How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?' asked SenSanders.
to cut medicine costs, is stalled in the Senate due to opposition from Sens. Joe Manchin , Kyrsten Sinema , and every Republican in the chamber.
against the Build Back Better package—continued to raise the costs of medications that treat a range of serious conditions, from cancer to heart disease to HIV.released last week by Patients for Affordable Drugs showed that pharma companies have increased the prices of 742 medications so far this year.
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