New medicines for cancer and rare diseases are still being reimbursed at very high prices.
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Drug giants get long periods of exclusivity on their drugs, during which they can set very high prices.
As opposed to the very high prices and supply squeeze of the present.
However, this trend appears to be biased by a period of very high prices between 1860 and 1880 when the industry began.
Previously, egged on by local governments, they had charged industrial users very high prices for electricity in order to charge householders very low ones.
Brill also turns his spotlight on medical device and pharmaceutical companies, which maintain very high prices and profits in the U.S., protected by Congress from attempts by Medicare to negotiate better prices.
However, this was happening against a background of very high oil prices and cheap foreign credit.
"Very high oil prices will dampen any kind of recovery and any kind of growth even during normal times, " Gurria said.
He said he used to campaign against GSK when "they kept the prices very high for Aids drugs".
Commodity producers, such as Russia, have benefited from very high raw-materials prices whereas for consumers, such as China and India, the gains from higher global activity have more than offset higher commodity costs.
The President, as you know, is very concerned about high energy prices, in particular the impact that energy prices have on prices at the gas pump because Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when prices go up at the pump it affects everything they do because of their reliance on cars for transportation to and from work and other places.
"I think that prices are very high and I think they always were, " she said.
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"Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy, " Bush said Tuesday.
But over the long term, we know that when prices become very high, that's very much what we would expect in the long term.
In a country like South Korea, or in an area like Hong Kong, where they have insanely high bandwidth rates at very low prices, there is nothing standing in the way of video conferencing software that "perfectly" emulates face-to-face communication.
On the one hand, Telluride is a very affluent town with high real estate prices, on par with places like Aspen and Deer Valley, and as a result it has all the support industry, like dining, spas, services, and off slope activities like heli-skiing and dog sledding.
May silver futures prices closed nearer the session high Wednesday and made a very good recovery from the session low that saw prices hit a fresh four-week low.
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Well, one reason is that high oil prices are a very real drag on the global economy.
Finally, the Federal Reserve should cease its deflationary monetary policy, which has sent real short-term interest rates to very high levels and has helped batter commodity prices.
Finally, the Federal Re-serve should cease its deflationary monetary policy, which has sent real short-term interest rates to very high levels and has helped batter commodity prices.
Deterred in part by high prices, Alwaleed has done very little in Asia until recently.
After very high occupancy last summer, hotels are raising prices early this year.
For political, fiscal and environmental reasons, the government releases land for development very slowly, which sends property prices sky high.
And here is a very important corollary: just because stock prices are high, does not necessarily mean that there is no bubble.
Ironically, at the very moment that oil prices were at an historical high, the only alternative fuel available to keep gasoline prices from going even higher was facing an unstinting and ferocious attack.
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