Drugmakers Give Big $ To Docs, Get Higher Drug Prices, More Opioids
If you wonder why doctors are not mobilizing against the opioid epidemic, or the ridiculously high price of prescription drugs, just look at this statistic: drug and medical-device makers made payments of more than a quarter of a billion dollars in 2015 to California doctors.
That's from federal records. Other research by the ballot initiative campaign to mandate lower price prescription drugs through Prop 61 shows the California Medical Association's (CMA) president has a medical practice that in Riverside that received more than $1.6 million from drug and medical device makers from August 2013 through the end of 2015. Other CMA trustees got big payments too, and the Association's foundation itself is funded big time by drugmakers.
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That's from federal records. Other research by the ballot initiative campaign to mandate lower price prescription drugs through Prop 61 shows the California Medical Association's (CMA) president has a medical practice that in Riverside that received more than $1.6 million from drug and medical device makers from August 2013 through the end of 2015. Other CMA trustees got big payments too, and the Association's foundation itself is funded big time by drugmakers.
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