Shkreli Was Right: Everyone's Hiking Drug Prices
- Prices more than doubled for 60 drugs in the past year
- House hearing Thursday will focus on soaring drug prices
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After Martin Shkreli raised the price of anti-parasitic drug Daraprim more than 50-fold to $750 a pill last year, he said he wasn’t alone in taking big price hikes.
As it turns out, the former drug executive was right. A survey of about 3,000 brand-name prescription drugs found that prices more than doubled for 60 and at least quadrupled for 20 since December 2014.