Mortgage-Style Payments For High-Cost Drugs Left On Cutting-Room Floor
Executive Summary
NASEM's 'Making Medicines Affordable' report assembled a big package of recommendations (8), implementing actions (27), and findings (18), but the committee passed over one idea that might be important for curative treatments in the future.
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