Imagine if #BigPharma priced your groceries… 🍞 Bread: Originally $3.99 📈 NOW $40.26 per loaf That’s a 909% increase, like a price hike Big Pharma applied to a drug used to treat central diabetes insipidus. Imagine paying surging prices at the grocery store like patients pay at the pharmacy! 😳 #TheProblemIsThePrice. bit.ly/3QaXutR

The price of medical products, services, and prescription drugs in the U.S. is much higher than in peer countries, writes @armollica and @annawmathews in @WSJ. For instance, a cancer drug like Herceptin costs over $6,800 in the US, compared to under $1.5k in peer countries. #TheProblemIsthePrice wsj.com/health/healthcare/us…

Prescription drug costs don’t rise on their own - they’re set by drug companies. A new CSRxP report shows highlights the tactics Big Pharma uses that inflate the cost of your health care premiums. Some of these tactics include: 📈 Hiking the price of 872 prescription drugs at the start of 2026 💊 Abusing patents on their most profitable products 💲 Out-of-control prices for new drugs Read more in @RxPricing's full report. #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/4aQNaOe

ICYMI: America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) reported that nearly a quarter of every health plan dollar in the U.S. goes to prescription drugs. When #BigPharma hikes drug prices, they drive up the price of premiums too. Read more on @AHIPCoverage's full page. #TheProblemIsThePrice ahip.org/resources/where-doe…

A recent @statnews analysis found that prescription drug spending has surged due to higher prices, with most health plans reporting drug expense growth of 15% or more. Read @bobjherman's story to understand how high prices of drugs like GLP-1s drive up health care premiums. #TheProblemIsThePrice statnews.com/2025/12/08/heal…

Watch out for #BigPharma’s ‘Thicket Trap’ – a tactic used to prevent affordable, generic drugs from breaking into the market by creating a thicket of insignificant and overlapping patents. That’s not their only play! Learn more Big Pharma’s Patent tactics to keep drug prices high in our Big Pharma Patent Playbook: bit.ly/48FSzbi #TheProblemIsThePrice

Do you agree prescription drug patents should only be extended for substantial innovations or inventions? Big Pharma doesn’t. When Big Pharma makes insignificant changes to a brand-name drug, like the delivery method or dosage form, they “evergreen” their patents to block affordable competitors from entering the market. Learn more about how this patent tactic and others keep Big Pharma’s drug prices sky-high in our Big Pharma Patent Playbook: bit.ly/48FSzbi #TheProblemIsThePrice

Big Pharma’s patent abuse in action. Enbrel, a prescription drug used to treat inflammatory conditions, arrived on the market nearly 30 years ago with a sticker price of $11,000 a year. Now, it’s priced at $106,000 a year — with 120 patents blocking any competition to bring the price down. Read more from @RebeccaDRobbins in the @nytimes. #TheProblemIsThePrice nytimes.com/2025/10/23/healt…

Despite making up just 2% of all prescriptions, @CADMHC found that in 2023, more than 13 out of every 20 dollars of prescription drug spending went to a small proportion of high-priced specialty drugs. #TheProblemIsThePrice

Big Pharma Grocers is back and we're hiking prices on everything - including ham! We've increased the price of this sandwich staple by a whopping 433% — identical to the recent increase we applied to Calcitriol, used to treat osteoporosis. #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/3NlqtWZ

Big Pharma’s outrageously priced weight loss drugs, coupled with the surge in demand for these drugs, could “bankrupt our entire health care system," per a recent Senate report. Read more from @BethMarieMole in @arstechnica #TheProblemisthePrice arstechnica.com/science/2024…

ATTN: The climbing costs of GLP-1 weight loss drugs threaten to empty state and local government’s health care budgets. Q: Who’s on the hook for Big Pharma’s outrageously priced drugs? A:: U.S. taxpayers. #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/498jF7T

Big Pharma has gone all-in on the multibillion-dollar weight loss industry, and their high-stakes gamble is poised to have a staggering effect on patient safety and health care costs. >>> bit.ly/41b729x #theproblemistheprice

Specialty drugs, specialty pricing! In 2018, more than 3 in 5 dollars spent on prescription drugs went to less than 1 in 60 prescriptions and impact health care premiums for everyone. #theproblemistheprice To learn more, read our latest RunawayRx Report: bit.ly/44KEO5B

Fox Business’ @JavierSimon reports that the price of rheumatoid arthritis medication Enbrel has increased by 701% since being released in 1998. If new car prices increased at the same rate, the average car would cost $142,815.64. 🤯 #theproblemistheprice

Throwing an end of Summer BBQ? It’s a Summer Blowout at #BigPharmaGrocers where our barbecue grills are priced 100 times higher than the other guys! Compared to some of our other drug price hikes, this is practically a steal! #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/3PXp7Ed

Do you love a cool scoop of ice cream on a warm summer day? It’s going to cost you. At #BigPharmaGrocers, ice cream prices have screamed up by 168%. That’s the same price hike that Chartwell Rx increased the price of Methimazole. #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/437FNNc

Get ready to stay hungry this Summer because Big Pharma Grocers upped the price of burgers by 614%! That's as much as drug manufacturer Althera Pharmaceuticals increased the price of Roszet, used to treat high cholesterol. #TheProblemIsThePrice bit.ly/437FNNc

2022 was a record-breaking year…. for the wrong reasons. The median price for new drugs in the US skyrocketed passed $220,000! 😡 #TheProblemIsThePrice reuters.com/business/healthc…

QUIZ TIME! Who do co-pay caps and deductible limits really benefit? Big Pharma! Patients end up paying the price difference in increased health care premiums and #BigPharma gets to keep their prices high. #TheProblemIsThePrice