{"id":391140,"date":"2018-12-31T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/website-exposing-how-much-big-pharma-pays\/"},"modified":"2018-12-31T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:18:34","slug":"website-exposing-how-much-big-pharma-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/website-exposing-how-much-big-pharma-pays\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Exposing How Much Big Pharma Pays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2014,\u00a0Harvard University<\/a>\u00a0stated that prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. North American culture practically worships\u00a0the pharmaceutical industry and often fails to recognize many of the issues within it. Many Americans are completely unaware that new prescription drugs\u00a0have a\u00a01 in 5 chance<\/a>\u00a0of causing\u00a0serious reactions, even after being\u00a0approved.<\/p>\n

In fact,\u00a0approximately 1.9 million people are hospitalized annually due to properly prescribed medication (not including any overdoses, self-prescriptions, or mis-prescribing). 128,000 people die every year in the U.S. from drugs prescribed to them, so why is this still happening? The reality is,\u00a0drug companies make a lot of money from selling prescriptions, and they even pay doctors to do\u00a0it for them.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever questioned this industry and your doctor\u2019s motives, here is some good news: You can now find out how much your doctor is paid annually to prescribe any drug. In addition, you can also search any company\u00a0name and find out how much they pay doctors in total every year.<\/p>\n

The Database That\u2019s Exposing Big Pharma\u2019s Money Trail\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n


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\nDrugs That Donu2019t W…<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nDavid Brownstein<\/span>
\nBest Price: <\/span>$1.51<\/span><\/span>
\nBuy New <\/span>$21.00<\/span><\/span>
\n(as of 02:25 EST – Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span>The governmental website\u00a0Open Payments Data.<\/a><\/p>\n

The two former options allow you to see how much doctors and hospitals are paid annually by pharmaceutical companies to prescribe drugs. If\u00a0you search a specific company, on the other hand, you can see a detailed summary of their spendings. There\u2019s specific information outlining which doctors\u00a0are paid the highest amounts, how many doctors they pay nationwide, the nature of these payments, and then specific details of every single payment they made to doctors that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2014,\u00a0Harvard University\u00a0stated that prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. North American culture practically worships\u00a0the pharmaceutical industry and often fails to recognize many of the issues within it. Many Americans are completely unaware that new prescription drugs\u00a0have a\u00a01 in 5 chance\u00a0of causing\u00a0serious reactions, even after being\u00a0approved. In fact,\u00a0approximately 1.9 million people are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}