If you can't make as much on each new prescription drug, a profitable solution is to develop more new drugs. Other industrialized countries and the drug industry are benefiting from our laissez-faire attitude toward prescription drug prices. It might be tolerable if prescription drugs were an impulse buy or a luxury. The fact that prescription drugs are more than a simple commodity, the fact that prescription drugs can prevent and alleviate disability, end pain and save lives, demands our vigilance in assuring their continued development. The essential nature of prescription drugs also demands that we do what we can to prevent unnecessary barriers to access.
Current prices are an unnecessary barrier to access.
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