Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis

Chapter Seven. How to Lower Drug Prices

	If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
	--Jiddu Krishnamurti

The crisis is real. Drug prices are high and getting higher. For those fortunate enough to have health insurance, prescription co-payments are rising, too. Money—whether it has to do with spending it or making it—is an obstacle to getting needed medicines.

Just as science and technology take us to the cusp of therapeutic breakthroughs as monumental as the introduction of antibiotics and just as we seem poised to realize the promise of “personalized” medicine that can be targeted to the patients for whom it will really work, we find ourselves stuck with a broken ...