Opinion: The right way to address prescription drug costs
Proposals being floated to rein in drug prices may help people today, but they threaten to shut down our ability to create new medicines for tomorrow.
by Jim Greenwood and David Beier
Dec 20, 2018
3 minutes
With a new Democratic majority in the House pledging to address the rising cost of health care — including prescription drugs — a fundamental question arises: Will lawmakers focus on the real issues that can drain a family’s finances, or simply adopt extreme policies that fail to take on the underlying problems in our health care system?
As policy professionals from different sides of the aisle, we believe there is a right way to address these issues and a wrong way. The right way will reduce out-of-pocket costs for Americans,
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