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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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