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NAS Report Turns Pharma-Friendly After Millions of Dollars in Donations

Every year, taxpayers pay for at least $750 million worth of expensive pharmaceuticals that are simply thrown away, so Congress decided to assign the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to investigate. What the NAS concluded was that Medicare should just stop tracking the cost of the drug waste altogether. What they didn’t say was that members of the investigative committee and the NAS itself have accepted millions of dollars in gifts from drug companies that have a direct interest in the...