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Last summer, and because of easing regulations and speeding up approvals in fiscal 2018, the fda approved more generic drugs than ever before. tonight, you will likely hear the president with the next step which is to eliminate rebates. that is money paid by drug manufacturers to make sure their drugs are covered by health insurance companies so that pharmacies can easily sell them to consumers. health and human services secretary alex azar say read rates drive up the cost and some medical exper...

Manufacturers, there are programs run by state governments, nonprofits, local pharmacies. and many of those programs are listed on the jdrf website, jdrf.org. dana? >> dana: thank you, jonathan. lets bring in a researcher on drug pricing at memorial sloan kettering hospital in new york. you were watching that with me and nodding your head. this is a story youve heard before? >> absolutely. this is a real policy failure. prices patients are paying for drugs are based on the list prices of the ins...

Down. they tell fox news theres no correlation between the growing prices set by drug makers and the rebates they negotiate with pharmacy benefit managers. the statement adds today there are no generic or biosimilar insulins on the market because of drug manufacturers ability to patent protect their products almost indefinitely, block competition and continue to charge much higher prices. now, the fda has announced new regulations that take effect in 2020. theyre designed to make it faster for t...

Insurance companies and pbms is sky rocketing. >> reporter: thats because insurers dont always pass on the savings according to consumers. >> thats why we called for an end to the rebate system. its driving up the price of insulin. its also reducing the choices people have. >> i have been rationing my insulin for three year. >> reporter: with no health insurance, champion has been taking fraction of her recommended dose a practice thats all too common. >> no one should go without i.n.s. tkeupb. ...

We finally have a path forward for companies to compete for insulins. that wont even start until 2020. its going to be many years. the companies with the brand products are going to fight at every point. so the question is, should we be taking steps so that the rebates that the companies pay to the pbms get translated into lower prices forpatients and the pharmacy? theres a way to do it. the trump administration floated an idea. got a technical term, point of sale rebate. the math can be done an...

They used wholesale acquisition costs which does not capture rebates or other types of discounts. now, researchers say they would like to add rebates and discounts to their calculations, but right now the pharmaceutical industry keeps that information confidential. >> dana: so the government trying to address the problem. how? >> reporter: yeah. concerns are being expressed on both sides of the aisle. you remember donald trump made keeping drug prices low, in fact, lowering them a campaign promi...

Lay-offs. musk said, we unfortunately have no choice but to reduce full-time employee head count by approximately 7%. he says it is to cut cost as the electric car rebates expire and tesla ramps up production of this mass market car, the model 3. mar mar markets are closed monday for martin luther king day. it signals heading into a long weekend. thank you very much. it spring, general motors will lay off its final shift of workers and stop production at a lordstown, ohio planned. it leaves ma...

>> well, the bottom line is the democrats dont want to give president trump a political victory because if this were really about money, then president trump probably would ask for way more than $5.6 billion. its a far kriep from the $25 billion he requested earlier in 2018. its going to be a game of chicken in which pow mounting pressure from federal employees who are furloughed and what they dont get their paychecks and cant pay the rent and their bills, thats going to put a lot of pressure on...

Nothing new. for more than a decade brand name prices have exceeded inflation by a wide margin. the blue line an inflation and thats the top drug prices. its a big difference and its an expense causing outrage on both sides of the aisle. senator elizabeth warren a 2020 hopeful wants to help lower prices by increasing competition in the generic market by having the federal government manufacture certain meds. whatever the solution, bringing down the price of medicine will no doubt be an issue for...

Be ashamed that they have raised drug prices for no reason. pfizer temporarily halted price increases but now all bets are off. pfizer will raise prices on 41 of its prescription drugs. while the increases happen every year, these affect list prices. so almost no patient pays these prices because they dont take into accounts insurance or rebates. still people we spoke with say theyre not happy. >> its terrible. >> i suffer from food allergies. i have an epipen on me. its pricey. >> its not full ...