Pharma’s Big Meeting in US Draws Protests Over Healthcare Costs

The pharmaceutical industry’s biggest investment conference drew protesters in San Francisco Monday with signs reading “delay, deny, depose,” words prosecutors said were written on shell casings found at the scene of a health insurance executive’s killing last month.

Across the street from the entrance of the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco where the JPMorgan Healthcare conference was being held, some two dozen protesters chanted “health care is a human right” and said drugmakers share blame with insurers for high costs and lack of access to care.

Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s insurance ...