Comments on: Want your share of the billions Big Pharma has stolen from you? GLWT /edsblog/want-your-share-of-the-billions-big-pharma-has-stolen-from-you-glwt/ Helping Americans get safe access to affordable medications. Mon, 06 May 2013 18:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cary Byrd /edsblog/want-your-share-of-the-billions-big-pharma-has-stolen-from-you-glwt/comment-page-1/#comment-205714 Cary Byrd Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:54 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1818#comment-205714 Adam, your post is very informative, and I wish I’d read it first. I sometimes tend to fly off the handle when it comes to consumers getting ripped off by high drug prices. But you would probably agree that the AWP abuses are easier for pharmacies to achieve in a market with so little price transparency — a fact that benefits both pharmacies and drugmakers.

]]> By: Adam J. Fein /edsblog/want-your-share-of-the-billions-big-pharma-has-stolen-from-you-glwt/comment-page-1/#comment-205713 Adam J. Fein Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:11:16 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1818#comment-205713 You are incorrect. The benefits of the increased WAC-to-AWP markup went to the pharmacies, not to drug makers.

Judge Saris was highly critical of pharmacies in her March decision. Check out the quote that I included in my blog post:

http://www.drugchannels.net/2009/03/farewell-awp.html

Regards,
Adam

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