Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Oct 2018
A new era for drug pricing: the ‘accountable choice’
11 October 2018 - Can we trust people to make good decisions about their own health?
As a society, we are of two minds on this matter. The fundamental institutional structures of the health care system presume that patients are uninformed and unengaged and must be protected from their own irrational decisions. Yet at the same time, and now with growing force, we are restructuring the system on the presumption that individuals can — and should — take active, informed, and cost-conscious roles as consumers.
This duality is particularly evident in our attitudes toward drugs.
