Car shopping, handbags and wealthy uncles: the quest to explain high drug prices

NPR

17 July 2019 - High drug prices are a hot topic in politics right now. President Trump has made lowering them a cornerstone of his re-election bid and is pushing a variety of ideas to get that done.

But politicians — of either party -- who want to rally the public around this have a challenge: Drug pricing is incredibly complex and convoluted. Just explaining what it is — let alone how to fix it — is really hard.

You know what's great for understanding complicated things? Analogies.

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