- Some pharma companies have seemingly defied the emphasis on drug costs by raising drug prices.
- Change is coming to prescription drug pricing, whether it’s painful or not for pharmaceutical companies,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said in a speech Monday at a health policy conference.
- “The drug companies that recently increased prices will be remembered for creating a tipping point in U.S. drug pricing policy,” Azar said.
- Drug prices were raised because Wall Street is their primary customer, not patients.
