MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Bob Herman @ Axios.com, April 26
Seven of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies — AbbVie, Amgen, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Biogen — cumulatively collected $12.1 billion of profit in the first three months of 2018. That's up 29% from the same time last year.
The bottom line: Drug makers have not been shy about raising list prices on previously approved medications, despite President Trump's rhetoric about going after the industry.
Some highlights from those companies thus far [....]