Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices Audiobook (Free)

In the warped world of prescription drug pricing, generic drugs can cost more than branded ones, old drugs can be relaunched at astronomical prices, and low-cost options are shut out of the market place. In Drugs, Cash and Key Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light in to the dark sides from the pharmaceutical industry to expose an internet of shadowy offers in which higher-priced medicines receive beneficial treatment and individuals are channeled toward the priciest medicines. At the center of this web are the extremely secretive middle players who create coverage levels for sufferers and negotiate with medication companies. By offering lucrative obligations to these middle players (as well as to doctors and hospitals), drug companies make sure that inexpensive medicines never gain grip. This technique of perverse bonuses has delivered the type of exorbitant medication prices-and profits-that everybody loves except for those that settle the bills.