How to stop generic drug price hikes (or at least reduce them)
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
March 23, 201818m 56s
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Show Notes
Ravi Gupta, is a resident in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore - and as he said has seen the influence of sudden price hikes on his patients - between 2010 and 2015 more than 300 drugs in the U.S. have seen sudden increases of over %100.
Ravi and his co-authors have suggested, and tested the feasibility of, a possible answer to those price hikes - a small tweak that should protect patients from the possibility that they’ll suddenly be unable to afford their essential medication.
Read the full research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k831