Eyedrops that are too big to fit, pill subscriptions that are too large to consume before expiration: drug companies are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medicine every year -- and they’re doing it on purpose.

A ProPublica investigation claims the medical and pharmaceutical industries design waste into vital medicines, but refuse to enact solutions in order to save costs -- leaving consumers to pick up the tab.

We already have some of the most expensive healthcare in the world. With this administration doing everything it can to crush the Affordable Care Act, Big Pharma thinks the American people are too jaded to fight back. Let’s prove them wrong.

Big Pharma: stop ripping off the American people!

If you’ve ever put in an eyedrop, some of it has almost certainly spilled out onto your face. Experts are claiming that this is by design -- eyedrops overflow our eyes because drug companies make the typical eyedrop larger than a human eye can hold. If these drops were pills, it would be the equivalent of throwing one into the trash for every one you take.

Glaucoma sufferer Gregory Matthews said there have been times when he’s run out of his $295 bottle of medication Azopt, with with a few days remaining before his refill -- and blamed himself. “You feel like you’re doing something that’s going to cause your blindness and it’s because of you.”

ProPublica has previously investigated how hospitals throw out brand new supplies, drug companies combine costly combinations of otherwise cheap drugs, and arbitrary expiration dates can mean drugs get thrown out early. This is the latest in a long line of dirty tactics used by Big Pharma to squeeze ever more money out of working families.

Tell Big Pharma to stop squeezing working families for every penny!

We’ve taken on Big Pharma before: nearly 300,000 members like you joined our campaign to stop pharmaceutical giant Merck, Sharpe and Dohme torturing horses by extracting their blood. We won that campaign: together, we can win this one too.

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