Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman
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Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes
The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices

Author: Robin Feldman

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Unabridged: 4 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/26/2019

Synopsis

In the warped world of prescription drug pricing, generic drugs can cost more than branded ones, old drugs can be relaunched at astronomical prices, and low-cost options are shut out of the market. In Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry to expose a web of shadowy deals in which higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines. At the center of this web are the highly secretive middle players who establish coverage levels for patients and negotiate with drug companies. By offering lucrative payments to these middle players (as well as to doctors and hospitals), drug companies ensure that inexpensive drugs never gain traction. This system of perverse incentives has delivered the kind of exorbitant drug prices—and profits—that everyone loves except for those who pay the bills.

About Robin Feldman

Robin Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings. An award-winning scholar, Feldman has published four books and more than fifty articles, and she has been cited by the White House and members of Congress. In 2017, she participated in the GAO's report to Congress on Artificial Intelligence and in an Army Cyber Institute threatcasting exercise on weaponization of data.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ell on April 10, 2019

Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes delves into the world of pharmaceutical price gouging and all the many hidden players behind it. As expected, collusion, secret agreements and greedy middlemen conspire to conflate medication prices. The reader is left surprised by just how many middlemen have a st......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on June 04, 2019

If you or anyone in your family depends on prescription drugs, you need to read this book. If I had unlimited financial resources, I would send a copy of this book along with my notes, thoughts and suggested resolutions to every member in Congress and every member in my state government. This book n......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 09, 2019

A Klaxon Call. In this exceedingly well documented scholarship, Feldman presents the case well. And what an alarming case it is. Drug manufacturers have found ways to game the system at all levels such that the existing system in the US actually *encourages* ever higher drug prices - even as patient......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 18, 2019

I received an advanced electronic copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley. Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes is a detailed critique of the pharmaceutical industry, the system that encourages high drug prices, and the perverse incentives that can drive prices even higher.... hannahbrucemacdonald.com/......more

Goodreads review by Clazzzer on April 02, 2020

This book is a great read. It is criminal what the medical companies are able to to do to us the consumers and what our governments are allowing them to do. There were no surprises though, which is unfortunate as everybody knows that this corruption is going on around us all of the time- legal corru......more

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