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Driving down the cost of drugs : battling big pharma in the statehouse / Ramón Castellblanch.
LIBRA RA401.A4 C37 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castellblanch, Ramón, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prescription pricing--California.
- Prescription pricing.
- Prescription pricing--Maine.
- Prescription pricing--Vermont.
- Drugs--Prices--California.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Prices--Maine.
- Drugs--Prices--Vermont.
- Drugs--Prices.
- Vermont.
- Maine.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 172 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2012.
- Summary:
- Castellblanch (health education, San Francisco State U.) describes how grassroots leaders found a door of political opportunity closed and opened it, as a guide and inspiration for people who have doors of their own to force open against special interests. This campaign was over access to prescription drugs. He discusses David, Goliath, and prescription drugs; how drugs got so expensive; Vermont raises the cry; as goes Maine; PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association) tries stopping state action; so goes California; and politically organizing for access to medicines. FirstForum is an imprint of Lynne Rienner Publishers. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Preface
- David, Goliath, and prescription drugs
- How drugs got so expensive
- Vermont raises the cry
- As goes Maine
- PhRMA tries stopping state action
- So goes California
- Politically organizing for access to medicines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1935049453
- 9781935049456
- OCLC:
- 780161398
- Publisher Number:
- 99952165055
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