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For-profit hospitals jacking up prices matches a similar story of predatory corporate practices on grocery costs and housing prices. It's not market supply and demand. Corporate giants have figured out how to rip people off more effectively.

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The pharma lobby gave more than $16 million in 2022 to advocacy groups, many of them ostensibly “grassroots,” that are battling the Medicare drug price negotiations now underway.

Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.

The U.S. co-invented the mRNA vaccine. So why doesn’t it act like it?

Powerful companies are removing hundreds of medicines from insurance plans — and they’re spending millions to stop attempts at reform.

Drugmakers are charging foreigners far lower prices for medicines they want shielded from new Medicare price cuts.

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy.