DRUG PRICES WILL KEEP RISING IN 2016
Prescription drug costs are projected to increase between 11-13% in 2016. There appears to be no end in sight to the trend of high drug...
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CPPI Director
- Jul 15, 2016
- 2 min
HOW PERSONAL IMPORTATION CAN IMPACT YOU
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that allowing Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada enjoys broad support....
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CPPI Director
- Jul 13, 2016
- 1 min
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES ARE A QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUE
You need your medication to maintain your quality of life, to get it you have to sacrifice your quality of life. Americans are unable to...
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CPPI Director
- Jul 7, 2016
- 2 min
WHY PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES ARE SO HIGH
Consumer Reports just released an investigation into the cost of prescription drugs. The article attempted to answer the age-old question...
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CPPI Director
- Jul 4, 2016
- 2 min
BIG PHARMA TRIES TO PULL THE WOOL OVER AMERICA’S EYES
A good op-ed by Gabriel Levitt, Vice-President of PharmacyChecker.com, appeared on Morning Consult the other day. It was a great read and...
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CPPI Director
- Feb 29, 2016
- 2 min
WHY IMPORTATION IS IMPORTANT
Over the weekend, I visited with my 85 year-old grandmother who lives in Wooster, OH, a small town outside of Akron-Canton. We talked...
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CPPI Director
- Nov 20, 2015
- 1 min
HHS DRUG FORUM COMMENTS
This morning, we issued a press release and an open letter to U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding today’s...
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CPPI Director
- Oct 16, 2015
- 1 min
COLA ADJUSTMENT & RX PRICES
Many folks may have heard the terrible news over the last day: overall inflation is declining (driven mainly by falling prices at the...
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CPPI Director
- Jul 30, 2015
- 3 min
ONLINE PHARMACIES PROVIDE SAVINGS, SECURITY
The Orlando Sentinel published on their website the below piece by CPPI Executive Director, Bryan Tackett. You can see our position...
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CPPI Director
- Jun 2, 2015
- 2 min
PHRMA DOUBLE-SPEAK & OBFUSCATION
I hope some of you were able to listen in to the Diane Rehm show last Thursday, May 28 on NPR. Ms. Rehm and her staff always do a great...
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CPPI Director
- May 28, 2015
- 1 min
DISAPPEARING PAYMENT OPTIONS
For years, credit card companies have approved online purchases of prescription medications from legitimate importation websites....
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CPPI Director
- May 25, 2015
- 3 min
20/20 RETROSPECTIVE
Many of you may have seen the ABC 20/20 report from a week or so ago that reported on the safety of purchasing medications online. As...
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CPPI Director
- May 16, 2015
- 1 min
STRUGGLING FOR HEALTH
The findings from this somewhat dated (November 2014) report from Commonwealth Fund continue to bother me. How can some folks feel this...
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CPPI Director
- May 15, 2015
- 1 min
NYT STATES THE OBVIOUS
A New York Times editorial from today states what we already know: drug prices continue to increase for everything and anything pharma...
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CPPI Director
- May 15, 2015
- 2 min
ASOP’S FABLES… OR FIBS
A new initiative by another Big Pharma shill, the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), was launched to protect American consumers...
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CPPI Director
- May 7, 2015
- 2 min
NABP FALSEHOODS
CBS in Chicago reported last night a startling story about prescription safety. A young boy nearly lost his life because of an error that...
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CPPI Director
- Apr 24, 2015
- 1 min
DRUG PRICES JUMP 75%
It was a bit disconcerting to open my email and see a Bloomberg news story talking about the increase in drug prices. This time, the...
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