Doctors Protest Big Pharma’s Out-of Control-Greed Which Is Bankrupting Ill Patients (Not all doctors are bad, forgive and help good people everywhere)

‘Americans diagnosed with cancer are at risk of losing their life savings because cancer drug costs are escalating almost as fast as the worst forms of the disease, according to a Mayo Clinic medical journal article decrying these costs signed by scores of nationally known oncologists.

“In the United States, the average price of new cancer drugs increased 5- to 10-fold over 15 years, to more than $100,000 per year in 2012,” the article says. “The cost of drugs for each additional year lived (after adjusting for inflation) has increased from $54,000 in 1995 to $207,000 in 2013. This increase is causing harm to patients with cancer and their families.”’

http://www.alternet.org/activism/doctors-protest-big-pharmas-out-control-greed-which-bankrupting-ill-patients