{"id":691,"date":"2009-11-16T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2009-11-16T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:20:18","slug":"drug-makers-raise-prices-in-face-of-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2009\/11\/16\/drug-makers-raise-prices-in-face-of-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Makers Raise Prices In Face of Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Duff Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/duff_wilson\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Duff Wilson<\/a> wrote an article for the <a title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">New York Times<\/a> today and it is just so troubling that I needed to present at least the first part of it (you need to subscribe to the NY Times to read the rest &#8211; they offer a free subscription):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even as drug makers promise to support Washington&#8217;s health care overhaul by  shaving $8 billion a year off the nation&#8217;s drug costs after the legislation  takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in  years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2('http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2009\/11\/16\/business\/16drugprices_CA0.html',%20'16drugprices_CA0',%20'width=720,height=577,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')\"> <\/a>Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, a pharmaceutical economics professor  at the University of Minnesota, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we have major legislation  anticipated, we see a run-up in price increases.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n<div id=\"sectionPromo\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"inlineMultimedia\">\n<div><a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2('http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2009\/11\/16\/business\/16drugprices_graphic.html',%20'699_462',%20'width=699,height=462,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/11\/16\/business\/16drugprices_graphic\/thumbWide.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Charging More for Prescription Drugs\" width=\"190\" height=\"126\" \/><span> <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"secondParagraph\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name  prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will  add more than $10 billion to the nation&#8217;s drug bill, which is on track to exceed  $300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it is the highest annual rate  of inflation for drug prices since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The drug trend is distinctly at odds with the direction of the <a title=\"More articles about the Consumer Price Index.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/c\/consumer_price_index\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Consumer  Price Index<\/a>, which has fallen by 1.3 percent in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Drug makers say they have valid business reasons for the price increases.  Critics say the industry is trying to establish a higher price base before  Congress passes legislation that tries to curb drug spending in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we have major legislation anticipated, we see a run-up in price  increases,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical  economics at the <a title=\"More articles about University of Minnesota\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/university_of_minnesota\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">University  of Minnesota<\/a>. He has analyzed drug pricing for <a title=\"More articles about AARP\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/a\/aarp\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">AARP<\/a>,  the advocacy group for seniors that supports the House health care legislation  that the drug industry opposes.<\/p>\n<p>A Harvard health economist, Joseph P. Newhouse, said he found a similar  pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to <a title=\"Recent and archival health news about Medicare.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/medicare\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Medicare<\/a> a few years ago, giving tens of millions of older Americans federally subsidized  drug insurance. Just as the program was taking effect in 2006, the drug industry  <a title=\"New York Times article from June 2006.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/21\/business\/21drug.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Freudenheim+and+Ambien&amp;st=nyt\">raised  prices by the widest margin in a half-dozen years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They try to maximize their profits,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Newhouse said.<\/p>\n<p>So much for working together to ease the health care crisis and help our economy get back on its feet.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article, <a title=\"Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/budurl.com\/vmmw\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duff Wilson wrote an article for the New York Times today and it is just so troubling that I needed to present at least the first part of it (you need to subscribe to the NY Times to read the rest &#8211; 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