Who's Promised What: A Guide To Pharma Drug Pricing Pledges

Pharma companies have responded to mounting political pressure to lower drug prices by pledging to limit increases and even roll back the costs of certain drugs, but it's hard to keep track of who has promised what exactly. Here, Scrip provides a listing of pharma pricing pledges.

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Merck & Co. Inc. was the latest pharmaceutical giant to limit drug price increases and the company even rolled back the costs for some of its brands – albeit brands with slowing growth, modest sales and generic competitors – as political pressure continues to mount around prescription medicine pricing in the US.

There has been concern about a populist push against drug pricing since then-President-elect Donald Trump claimed in January 2017 that the pharma industry was "getting away with murder" – but Merck and its peers were slow to change their drug pricing tactics

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