Pharma & biotech

Bernie Sanders summons pharma CEOs to senate hearing on high drug prices in US

Senator Bernie Sanders wants to know why pharmaceutical companies are raking in the cash and paying sky-high salaries while one in every four Americans can’t afford their prescription drugs.
Formanden for det amerikanske Senats sundhedsudvalg, Bernie Sanders, har indkaldt topcheferne fra Johnson & Johnson, Merck og Bristol Myers Squibb til under en høring at redegøre for, hvorfor USA betaler verdens højeste priser for receptpligtig medicin. | Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Formanden for det amerikanske Senats sundhedsudvalg, Bernie Sanders, har indkaldt topcheferne fra Johnson & Johnson, Merck og Bristol Myers Squibb til under en høring at redegøre for, hvorfor USA betaler verdens højeste priser for receptpligtig medicin. | Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by ALBERT RØNNING-ANDERSSON

The Democratic chairman of the US Senate Health Committee, Bernie Sanders, has summoned the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, MSD and Bristol Myers Squibb to a hearing to explain why the US pays the world’s highest prices for prescription drugs, Endpoints writes.

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