by KFF Health News | Aug 20, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from KFF Health News, by Elisabeth RosenthalAmerica’s pharmaceutical giants are suing this summer to block the federal government’s first effort at drug price regulation. Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act included what on its face seems a...
by ProPublica | Aug 14, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from ProPublica, by Cezary Podkul It was a multibillion-dollar strike, so stealthy and precise that the only visible sign was a notice that suddenly vanished from a government website. In August 2017, a federal agency with sweeping powers...
by Common Dreams | Jul 13, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Lindsay Koshgarian Last month, a lone member of Congress took a stand against a powerful industry that shamelessly extracts billions of tax dollars from the U.S. government. Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was the...
by ProPublica | Jun 19, 2023 | Money Over People
Sitting at her bedroom desk, nursing a cup of coffee on a quiet Tuesday morning, Lauren Davila scoured digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads. A graduate history student at the College of Charleston, she logged them on a spreadsheet for an internship...
by Common Dreams | Jun 13, 2023 | Money Over People
“What makes the greed of the pharmaceutical industry so reprehensible is the fact that the American people are paying twice for some of the most expensive prescription drugs on the market: First through their taxes and a second time at the pharmacy...
by Common Dreams | Jun 9, 2023 | Money Over People
As smoke from massive wildfires in Quebec blanketed much of the eastern U.S., forcing millions to stay indoors as state governments issued code-red air quality alerts, a longtime shill for the fossil fuel and tobacco industries falsely told Fox News viewers late...