The Covid ١٩ pandemic could be the last straw for high drug costs
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America’s long-running debate over prescription drug prices feels more urgent than ever during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Most people are rooting for the US drug industry — self-styled, and not without reason, as the most innovative in the world — to develop a vaccine or a cure for the disease that has taken more than 160,000 American lives. But the hope is tempered by an unavoidable fear in the country with the world’s highest medical prices: Will it be affordable?
“In a sense, this is the whole drug pricing dilemma in one act,” Larry Levitt, executive vice president at …
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