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E-book Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All

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The high cost of essential medicines is a big problem. Recently, here in the United States where Ilive, social media and even lawmakers exploded in anger over a 400percent-plus increase in the lifesaving allergy medicine EpiPen. Similar outrage occurred when a young pharmaceutical corpora-tion chief executive officer (CEO) increased the price of a critical toxo-plasmosis drug by more than 5,000percent overnight—just because he could. Ahundred-plus cancer physicians took to the pages of the pres-tigious journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings to write an impassioned article decrying the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. These physicians com-plained that drug companies were setting medicine prices so high that one out of every five of their patients was unable to fill his or her prescrip-tions. In response to all these incidents and the popular outrage they have inspired, patients, caregivers, and politicians from both major political parties have leveled charges of medicine price gouging against the phar-maceutical companies. Even for those of us who are fortunate enough to not be poor and to have health insurance, the cost of medicines has a big impact. The cost of medicines drains the budgets of our governments, and barriers to access-ing medicines lead to more expensive health care treatments and illnesses that drag down our economy. Polls show that three-quarters of Americans believe that drug costs are unreasonable and that those prices reflect the greed of drug companies.1For the poor and the uninsured, access to medicines is a matter of life and death. Millions of people need medicines that are priced at levels they simply cannot afford. These suffering patients face a real problem: their desperate need for affordable drugs clashes with the core business model of a powerful industry.On one side of that clash are multinational pharmaceutical corpora-tions, which make up one of the most profitable and politically influential industries in history. That industry is determined to protect monopoly prices on patented medicines. On the other side of the clash are the sick and the poor, joined by advocates scattered across the globe in small, usu-ally underfunded organizations. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like a fair fight. But patients and medicine activists have won before.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

615.1 QUI p

Penerbit

New York : Cornell University Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

260 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781501713910

Klasifikasi

615.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Drugs, Medicine, Materia Medica

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