10, 18, 2016….. After hearing various health industry representatives and political figures voice concerns about narcotic prices over the course of two days, the state’s Health Policy Commission greeted a pharmaceutical group representative with something resembling praise, before grilling her on her industry’s practices. Dr. Don Berwick told Joldersma it was ” courageous of you to show up” to take part in a panel on strategies addressing pharmaceutical spending growth in Massachusetts.” You can help us talk about the need to make it less expensive to bring new medications to the marketplace .” Spikes in the costs of life-saving medications have spawned outrage over the past year while also helping push health care expenditures last year beyond a benchmark the state hoped would be met.
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