Drug Pricing: Oncology in the US

June 22, 2016

One of the best parts of living in New York City during the last mayoral election cycle in 2013 was discovering the wide diversity of active political parties, including the descriptively named Rent is Too Damn High party. The 2016 election cycle has kept health care in the news, but sometimes it feels like both major parties should rename themselves Drug Prices Are Too Damn High. Despite the rhetoric, are drug prices really high? This white paper aims to parse out the real issues at play in the biopharmaceutical market and examine what dynamics are occurring by using oncology in the United States as a case study.

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The Northside Hospital health care system is an 852-bed, not-for-profit health care provider with more than 150 locations across Georgia, including three acute care, state-of-the-art hospitals in Atlanta, Cherokee County and Forsyth County. Northside Hospital leads the U.S. in newborn deliveries, diagnoses and treats the most cancer cases in Georgia and performs the most robotic surgeries in Georgia. Ranked #4 on the U.S. News list of the Best Hospitals in Georgia and the only Georgia hospital on the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers, Northside has more than 2,500 physicians and 13,400 employees who serve nearly 2 million patient visits annually across a full range of medical services.

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