{"id":177877,"date":"2019-05-15T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/15\/not-enough-bullets-23\/"},"modified":"2019-05-15T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T00:50:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/15\/not-enough-bullets-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generic drug makers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/11\/health\/teva-price-fixing-lawsuit.html\">conspired to raise the price of their drugs by over 1000%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism, you gotta love it, huh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Leading drug companies including Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent, according to a far-reaching lawsuit filed on Friday by 44 states.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The industrywide scheme affected the prices of more than 100 generic drugs, according to the complaint, including lamivudine-zidovudine, which treats H.I.V.; budesonide, an asthma medication; fenofibrate, which treats high cholesterol; amphetamine-dextroamphetamine for A.D.H.D.; oral antibiotics; blood thinners; cancer drugs; contraceptives; and antidepressants.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe all know that prescription drugs can be expensive,\u201d Gurbir S. Grewal, the New Jersey attorney general, said in a statement. \u201cNow we know that high drug prices have been driven in part by an illegal conspiracy among generic drug companies to inflate their prices.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can we <b>PLEASE<\/b> start jailing the executives who do this?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a criminal conspiracy, and should be treated as the crime that it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generic drug makers conspired to raise the price of their drugs by over 1000%. Capitalism, you gotta love it, huh? Leading drug companies including Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent, according to a far-reaching lawsuit filed on Friday by 44 states.The industrywide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,435,364,567],"class_list":["post-177877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-evil","tag-pharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}