US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vows crackdown on 'unjustified' drug price hikes

3 September 2016

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is offering a plan to protect Americans from unjustified price hikes in lifesaving treatments that have long been on the market.

Over the last year, we’ve seen far too many examples of drug companies raising prices excessively for treatments that have been available for years – from Turing raising the price of pyrimethamine for AIDS patients by over 5,000%, to Mylan raising the price of the EpiPen by more than 400%, according to a campaign announcement on Friday, which comes as a US Congressional Committee launches an investigation into the pricing of the EpiPen injector by drugmaker Mylan

Should an excessive, outlier price increase be determined for a long-standing treatment, Mrs Clinton’s plan would make new enforcement tools available, including:

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