Archive for 2016

Treat pharma as a utility, and 10 other ways states can lower drug prices

As prescription drug costs continue to squeeze state budgets, a group of state health policy makers is offering some novel – and also some familiar – suggestions for coping. These include regulating the pharmaceutical industry as a utility, allowing states to operate as pharmacy benefit managers and waiving some provisions of the Medicaid program. In […]


International patent rights key to ensuring access to medication

A United Nations panel recently released a series of disastrous policy recommendations designed to increase access to medicines in developing countries. The panel ignored obvious solutions to help the one in three people in developing nations who lack regular access to medicines. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon originally tasked the UN High-Level Panel on Access to […]


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