High prices for prescription drugs

Who Pays Higher Prices for Prescription Drugs?

The Affordable Prescription Drugs Act: a solution for today's high prescription drug prices.

Getting to the Root of High Prescription Drug Prices.

ISSUE: Historic increases in prescription drug prices and spending are contributing to unsustainable health care costs in the United States. There is widespread public support for elected officials to address the problem. GOAL: To document the drivers of high U.S. prescription drug prices and offer a broad range of feasible policy actions. METHODS: Interviews with experts and organizations enga...

A Prescription for New Drugs

previously fatal conditions, such as bacterial infections. Vaccines now shield us from viral and bacterial diseases like polio. Even conditions that were considered fatal until recently, such as HIV/AIDS, today no longer carry an automatic death sentence. The pharmaceutical industry has driven the development of various drugs since the early 20th century. During this period, due to its role in ...

Competition: an antidote to the high price of prescription drugs.

Patent protection and factors unique to prescription drugs weaken the forces keeping prices near costs for other products. A growing public consensus that affordable drugs should be available to all is likely to increase the upward pressure on prices. To restore competition to all parts of the pharmaceutical industry, we propose a new institute at the National Institutes of Health that would co...