On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) said there has been price gouging “by oil companies for over a year now.” And that the significant drop in the price of oil after President Joe Biden announced he’d release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve shows that the price was artificially high. […]
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Warren on Increased Gas Prices: ‘This Isn’t About Inflation’ – It’s Price Gouging
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) argued that if “this were just ordinary inflation, we might see prices go up. But prices at the pump have gone up,” because the increase in gas prices “isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging for these guys.” Warren said, “We know exactly […]
Rare paralysis treatment drug that used to be free now costs over $100,000 a year, thanks to Big Pharma price gouging
(Natural News) A lot of drugs have been on the market for quite a long time. Created decades back, some of these have fluctuated over the course of their existence with patients not having any trouble adjusting to the changes, except in certain cases. One such case is a drug now called Keveyis. The drug was […]
The Fight Over Price Gouging By The Pharmaceutical Industry
Above Photo: ep_jhu/flickr/cc As the Democratic Governors Association raised $2.28 million from drug companies and health insurers in the first half of 2017, the group’s chairman, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, echoed a health care lobbyist’s criticism of a landmark bill to combat drug price-gouging, according to documents obtained by International Business Times. The documents detail how […]
Maryland’s Crackdown On Drug Price Gouging Riles Up Big Pharma
The law applies to generic or off-patent drug makers that manufacture a medicine at least three other firms also make. BALTIMORE — A trade group for generic drugmakers brought a federal complaint Thursday to block Maryland’s attempt of a crackdown on pharmaceutical price gouging. Set to take effect in October without the signature of Republican Gov. Larry […]
Natural News reaches 1.6 million Facebook likes as media powerhouse launches dozens of alternative news websites
(NaturalNews) It’s been a big year for the Natural News family of media websites, and we’re proud to announce that our flagship site now has its highest number of followers ever! According to Facebook statistics, Natural News now has 1.6 million followers from all around the world, and that number is only continuing […]
3rd refugee shelter torched in Sweden in 6 days
An old school building in Onsala in the affluent area of Kungsbacka, some 30 km south of Gothenburg, caught fire on Saturday night. Twenty firefighters responded to the emergency call. “Half the building has been damaged by fire,” said Mikael Lindgren, the lead operator of the emergency services in Greater Gothenburg, as cited by The […]
USDA Wasted $6.2 Million of Taxpayer Money for Cars It Doesn’t Use
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent $6.2 million on cars the agency does not need, according to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). Due to poor monitoring of vehicle logs the USDA has thousands of cars that are underused. The audit also identified $1.2 million in questionable fuel purchases by […]