In an article, the Democrat, together with Bernie Sanders, denounced the excessive prices charged by large pharmaceutical companies for American patients. A dose of a drug for diabetics costs US$936 in the United States and US$169 in Canada.
The president of United States, Joe Bidenurged the giants on Tuesday Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly to lowering the prices of diabetes and obesity drugssaying companies need to stop “ripping off” Americans.
He President and Senator Bernie Sanders argues in an article that American patients pay much more than those in Canada, Germany and Denmark for medicines such as Ozempic, for type 2 diabetics, and Wegovy, used to treat obesity and for weight loss.
“Why do people in Burlington, Vermont, pay so much more for the same medicine than people in Copenhagen or Berlin?” Biden and Sanders wrote in the article, published in USA Today. According to a study, A month’s dose of Ozempic costs $936 in the United States, five to nine times more than in Canada ($169) and Germany ($103).respectively.
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Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly also charges “unreasonably high prices” for Mounjaro, a drug similar to Ozempic. “excessive prices” make drugs unaffordable for millions of Americansadded the text from Biden and Sanders, who chairs the Senate health committee.
“If the prices of these drugs are not substantially lowered, they have the potential to break the US health care system“the president and senator added. “We will not allow that to happen.”
Biden, who seeks re-election in November, focused his campaign on reducing health care costswhich has long struggled with high prescription drug prices. The article comes days after the president had a dismal performance in the first presidential debate against Republican Donald Trump, raising fears among Democrats ahead of the election.
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