Drug Price Control: How Some Government Programs Do It

Drug pricing is having its moment. Thousand-dollar pills to treat Hepatitis C, eye-popping price hikes for common generics, and surging overall spending on pharmaceuticals have rung alarm bells from coast to coast. All the while, drugs continue to be up to twice as expensive in the U.S. as in other wealthy countries. Proposed treatments for the drug pricing epidemic are varied, but some call for government to do more.        
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: blogs