Protesters rallied Thursday at pharmaceutical giant Merck’s Rahway headquarters calling for it to cooperate with Medicare and negotiate lower prices for the nation’s most expensive drugs. Merck is leading a court battle to block a Biden administration initiative to make medicines more affordable for the 65 million people on Medicare.
“It is because of price-gouging and greed. There is no reason we cannot have fair and affordable drug prices,” said Maura Collinsgru of New Jersey Citizen Action.