Prescription drug prices in the United States

In the United States, a large number of people rely heavily on a federally provided healthcare system of insurance coverage known as Medicare. This program is available for people with disabilities as well as those of age sixty-five and up, with the huge majority of those enrolled in the program being part of the latter group. This means that a lot of the United States’ aging population is very dependent on this federal program as their main source of healthcare coverage. This reliance is…

the case in the United States. Just seven years ago, citizens in the United States would be denied health insurance if they had a preexisting condition. While health care has seen massive improvements in recent years, it still is not where it should be. Currently, United States healthcare is run by health insurance giants who are trying to make as much profit as possible. Why should…

Drug Prices & Morality Martin Shkreli is now known as one of the most hated man in the world. This man bought the rights to a drug called Pyrimethamine or more commonly known as Daraprim. Daraprim is a common drug used to prevent the PCP in people with HIV and AIDS. Daraprim was also used to prevent malaria. The pressing issue of this is that Martin had raised the price of this drug from a mere $13.50 per pill to a staggering $750 per pill. This is a 5000 percent increase. This issue is…

affects every other piece of present medical care. In the case of the Affordable Care Act new protocols and financial methods have placed Medicare under a mainly sharp investigation over the past five years. When Barack Obama was President of the United States his administration had wanted to restructure the Medicare program while making it more resourceful and sustainable…

Prescription Drug – Public Policy Issue Many different public policies are designed to impact the people of America in various ways. Most of these policies are implemented to promote a better quality of life in some way or another. However, this is not always the final result when several stakeholders have competing interest such as the case with the United States Food and Drug Administration knew as the FDA. The FDA is a department within the federal government that is responsible for ensuring…

DTC Prescription Drug Advertisements: Wasteful or Beneficial? The $395 billion United States Pharmaceutical industry spent $5.2 billion on advertising drugs directly to consumers in 2015 (procon.org). This is an extremely excessive amount of money spent on a topic that is quite irrelevant. The United States and New Zealand are the only countries where drug makers are allowed to market prescription drugs directly to consumers (Harvard’s Health). The fact that only two countries in the world…

the Community in Assessment and Decision Making: Prescription Drug Overdose In today’s world, many people are dying in the United States because of prescription drug overdoses. “Every 19 minutes, someone in the United States dies from an unintentional prescription drug overdose. One major contributing factor to the rise in such deaths is the increased use of opioid analgesics” (APHA, 2015). What is alarming is that even though these prescriptions were given for a medical reason, they ended up in…

deaths. There were over 35,000 personal injury claims filed against the company ("35 FDA-Approved Prescription Drugs Later Pulled from the Market - Prescription Drug Ads - ProCon.org"). Perhaps if corners were not cut and the creators of the drug had spent more time studying the effects, and if the FDA reviewed it longer, these injuries and deaths would not have occurred. Although speeding up the drug review and approval process may have benefitted some people who were desperate for a cure, it…

as a way of avoiding being a burden to their family. Prescription drugs for the…

so why would they look to Madison Avenue for advice about their diabetes? As one of only two countries in the world allowing direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of prescription medications, it is a multi-billion dollar payday in the United States for pharmaceutical companies, advertisers, and mass media (Pro Con, 2014). Proponents of drug advertising claim they promote health by informing patients about diseases and possible treatments, and thus Americans are healthier and better informed because…