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Big Pharma

From this article I will take facts for my website.


  • In 2018 Americans spent $535 billion on prescription drugs which is a 50% increase from 2010.

  • Prices of drugs from 2011 to 2015 increased anywhere from 40% to 70%

  • 1 in 4 Americans with diabetes have practiced insulin rationing

  • Price of insulin has doubles since 2012

  • Antroinette, whose daughter was rationing insulin due to the high cost and died at the age of 22 as a result.

  • Making a year's worth of insulin cost anywhere from $78-$133 but on vial will cost $137

  • Number of advertisements went from 79,000 to 16 million from m1997 to 2016


Meller, Abbey, and Hauwa Ahmed. “How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans.” Center for American Progress, American Progress, 24 May 2018, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/big-pharma-reaps-profits-hurting-everyday-americans/.




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