Drug Prices Are Too Damn High

MedPage Today September 1, 2023
N. Adam Brown, MD, MBA

— It’s been a long road to Medicare price negotiation … and there’s still work to be done

Remember the “Rent is Too Damn High Party” from the early 2000s, which starred New York City mayoral and gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan? While this single-issue campaign didn’t find electoral favor, it was attention-grabbing, even earning features on Jimmy Kimmel and Saturday Night Live.

I’ve been thinking about the campaign’s message as the fever surrounding pharmaceutical pricing has spiked. I not only raise this campaign with my University of North Carolina MBA students when we discuss the issue, I’ve also asked them to write a paper taking a position: Are drug prices too high, or are they on the mark?

While I...

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