Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic could be the last straw for high drug costs
12 August 2020 - New polling shows voters are ready for aggressive actions on prescription drug prices.
America’s long-running debate over prescription drug prices feels more urgent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most people are rooting for the US drug industry — self-styled, and not without reason, as the most innovative in the world — to develop a vaccine or a cure for the disease that has taken more than 160,000 American lives. But the hope is tempered by an unavoidable fear in the country with the world’s highest medical prices: Will it be affordable?
