Shkreli Awards

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The Shkreli Awards are sardonic awards bestowed since 2017 by the Lown Institute to the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care in the USA.

Lown Institute Shkreli Awards

Year	Winners
2020	Federal PPE task force gives lifesaving supplies to private companies to distribute, creating bidding wars and delay Drug company Moderna uses $1 Billion in taxpayer funding to develop Covid-19 vaccine, sets highest price of any vaccine-maker Hospitals with extra beds refuse to take uninsured patients from overrun neighboring hospitals Nursing homes fail to protect most vulnerable Americans from Covid-19 Big pharma rejects global effort to cooperate on Covid-19, competes for profit instead Hospital CEO pens op-ed justifying high vaccine prices, neglects to disclose $487,000 conflict of interest Hospitals punish mask-wearing clinicians for “scaring the public” Connecticut doctor uses town’s Covid-19 testing sites to bilk residents Pandemic profiteers peddle fake and potentially harmful Covid-19 cures Private-equity backed companies spend millions to protect surprise billing practices, while cutting physician pay and pocketing millions of pandemic relief dollars
2019
2018

External links

• The Lown Institute Shkreli Awards

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