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"By last year, the sum — including radio and TV commercials, billboards, and print and digital ads — had reached an estimated $201 million, and total spending on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs topped $9 billion, by MediaRadar’s calculations."

UPDATE

*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*

(14/n)

... who #Musk hired as an advisor over the summer to help his get-out-the-vote work, was most recently a senior political advisor at #PhRMA, a trade association that advocates on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. He was previously a national field director for the #RepublicanNationalCommittee

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-list-white-house-2025-2?insiderId=c8d4d656-9f75-4844-8f2d-48ca3eedba29

#trump #rfkjr #bigpharma #pfizer #elililly #phrma #corruption

It was a matter of time ,Trump though talk in public but soft in reality , Trump and Kennedy had dinner with big pharma but consumer advocates were not invited, go figure.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/trump-rfk-jr-pfizer-lilly

Federal #court in #Texas dismissed #lawsuit brought by heavy-hitting #pharmaceutical trade group, #PhRMA, which argued forcing #drug makers to negotiate #Medicare #drugprices is #unconstitutional. The big pharmaceutical companies suing government directly over negotiations include J&J, #BristolMyersSquibb, #NovoNordisk, #Merck, and #AstraZeneca. District Judge David Ezra found they first need to bring claims through an administrative review process under the #MedicareAct https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/

Judge tosses Big Pharma suit claiming drug price negotiation is unconstitutional
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/ #CaseDismissed #BigPharma #loses #PhRMA #NICA #Medicare

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/canada-vows-to-defend-its-drug-supply-against-florida-importation-plan/
Don’t blame Canada for being against it. It is funny how DeSantis would celebrate getting cheaper drugs from “liberal” Canada- a country that as the article says negotiates drug prices with manufacturers. And the statement from Big Pharma on how this will harm public health is utter nonsense and fear mongering. Don’t insult our intelligence.
#PhRMA #canada #prescriptiondrugs #desantis

Fuck #PhRMA for many reasons but in particular this time for making us watch so many goddamn musical commercials with people singing and dancing on overproduced sets instead of using that money to lower prescription costs for everyone.

#PhRMA suing the US government to block enforcement of a program giving #Medicare power to negotiate drug prices. https://www.phrma.org/resource-center/Topics/Access-to-Medicines/Release-NICA-GCCA-PhRMA-Litigation-Asserts-Price-Setting-Provisions-in-the-Inflation-Reduction-Act-are-Unconstitutional

@bermaninstitute

A broad diversity of patient advocacy groups have expressed alarm at Judge Kacsmaryk's unprecedented decision

“The implications of this ruling go far beyond #mifepristone,” read a statement of opposition signed by 30 organizations representing those with serious health conditions.

They warned, “If this judge’s ruling is allowed to stand, patients may no longer have the security of knowing that determinations about drug safety ultimately lie with the experts.”

Also objecting are pharmaceutical companies that recognize the threat to innovation posed by arbitrary judicial orders.

The interim director of the biotech organization #BIO described the decision as **an assault on science**, while the pharmaceutical organization #PhRMA expressed **serious concerns with any court substituting its opinion for the FDA’s expert approval decision-making**