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The high cost of prescription drugs is a very real problem in the United States. The average American spends approximately $1,300 per year on prescription drugs, more than residents of …
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STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending, mapped geographically based on each company’s U.S. headquarters, as listed on its website. WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and …
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Major pharmaceutical companies and trade groups helped fund the campaigns of more than 2,400 state legislators nationwide in the 2020 election. Lawmakers who don’t appear on the map did not …
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Controlling the rising costs of pharmaceuticals, particularly those administered by physicians, has been a top health care priority for policymakers, with recent actions in both Congress and the executive branch. …
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug overdose epidemic. But as the nation directs scarce public health resources to combatting Covid-19, the …
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