By Peter J. Pitts President Donald Trump just announced a sweeping executive order that’d forbid Medicare from paying more for advanced medicines than any other developed country. This price control scheme, if implemented, would sound a death knell for medical innovation – and potentially for many patients. Drug development is expensive, time-consuming and full of […]
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Trump Administration Ends Pharmacy Coupons When Patients Need Them Most
By Peter J. Pitts For chronically ill Americans, the economic damage from COVID-19 could be nearly as life-threatening as the virus itself. More than 40 million workers have filed for unemployment since the beginning of the outbreak. For many, the financial challenges of joblessness have made it harder than ever to afford their insurance companies’ […]