Senators Investigate Big Pharma’s “New Sales Scheme” Tied to Telehealth Companies
On July 17, 2025, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Peter Welch of Vermont, released a new investigative report titled “Big Pharma’s New Sales Scheme: Expanding Patient Access or a Virtual Pill Mill? A Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth Platform Investigation”.1 Over the past nine months, […]
Understanding the 500 Percent Price Increase of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
During a 2021 earnings call with stockholders, Pfizer Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio discussed how the company was using “pandemic pricing” to charge $19.50 per COVID-19 vaccine dose, a product it expected to make $15 billion on in 2021. “[There’s] significant opportunity for those margins to improve once we get beyond the pandemic environment that […]