Will there ever be a solution for the USA high drug prices? Nothing from Obama and nothing from Trump...
/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/business/humira-drug-prices.html"The price of Humira, an anti-inflammatory drug dispensed in an injectable pen, has risen from about
$19,000 a year in 2012, to more than $38,000 today, per patient, after rebates, according to SSR Health, a research firm. That’s an increase of 100 percent."
"AbbVie joined a few of its rivals in saying it would limit price increases to single digits this year, and so only raised Humira by another 9.7 percent this month, roughly four and a half times the inflation rate. For the drug industry, that counts as generosity."
"Looking at the international picture tells its own story about
drug costs. A prefilled carton with two syringes costs $2,669 in the United States, compared with $1,362 in Britain, $822 in Switzerland and $552 in South Africa, according to a 2015 report from the International Federation of Health Plans."
“You’ve got the largest market for pharmaceuticals, which has the highest prices,” said Christopher Raymond, senior biotech analyst at Piper Jaffray. “That doesn’t make any sense.”