The White House re­view of drug prices: Don't hate the play­er — hate the game

For­eign na­tions are spong­ing off Amer­i­can in­vest­ment in­to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal R&D and tak­ing ad­van­tage of by US pa­tients by sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly un­der­pay­ing for drugs, a new study by the White House has con­clud­ed.

Surg­ing drug prices in the Unit­ed States are a thorny yet rare bi­par­ti­san is­sue as an­oth­er pres­i­den­tial elec­tion beck­ons. While Pres­i­dent Trump strug­gles to make good on his promise to low­er drug prices, the bio­phar­ma in­dus­try, which has long thrived in its lais­sez-faire ecosys­tem, has per­sis­tent­ly ar­gued that gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion will sti­fle in­no­va­tion.

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