As a registered nurse for more than 40 years, I’m focused on patients – not politics. But, I cannot remain silent when a system is hurting patients.Why are prescription medications three times more expensive for Americans than for people in the rest of the developed world? Why has the cost of these drugs soared by more than 40% over the past decade? And why did the price of nearly 250 prescription drugs go up again at the beginning of 2025?
Robin Schaeffer
The answer: Big Pharma.
The drugmakers raise prices on essential medications year after year, too often forcing patients and families to make impossible choices between paying for the food, shelter and other basics they need to survive and the prescriptions they require to stay healthy.
Consider the rise in cost for popular GLP-1 medications used by patients to manage weight and diabetes. Nobody pays more than Americans for these drugs – routinely close to $1,000/month – yet Yale University researchers found GLP-1 medications cost less than $5/month to manufacture. That is an unjustifiable markup at the expense of American families.
Individual consumers aren’t the only ones …
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