MARCH 22, 2017

Why Are Drug Prices So High?

Michael Kirsch, MD

Why are the costs of prescription drugs so high?  While I have prescribed thousands of them, I can’t offer an intelligent answer to this inquiry. Of course, all the players in this game – the pharmaceutical companies, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, insurance companies, consumer activists and the government – offer their respective bromides, where does the truth lie? 

While I don’t fully understand it, and I don’t know how to fix it, we