Don’t Let The Quiet Fool You: The US Drug Pricing Debate Is At A Critical Point
Executive Summary
There won’t be a lot of legislative action in Congress in the weeks following passage of the $1.9tn American Rescue Plan. But the coming months are a critical time for the drug industry to try to set the terms for how it is treated in the next major bill later this year, and the stakes could not be higher.
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