The uproar about the price of the EpiPen is the latest episode in the controversy over drug pricing that extends back decades. However, the more recent, sustained public outrage and media attention have occurred during a presidential election cycle, which places greater focus on policy prescriptions. A common concern with proposed regulation of drug markets is the extent to which it would reduce the rate of drug innovation and decrease the number of new drugs in the marketplace. But another important consideration is less frequently voiced: How would (or could) policy affect the composition of innovation—the types of drugs that ...
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Rachel E. Sachs,
From Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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Corresponding Author: Rachel E. Sachs, JD, MPH, Washington University School of Law, Campus Box 1120, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130; e-mail, rsachs@wustl.
Current Author Addresses: Ms. Sachs: Washington University School of Law, Campus Box 1120, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Dr. Frakt: Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: R.E. Sachs, A.B. Frakt.
Drafting of the article: R.E. Sachs, A.B. Frakt.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: R.E. Sachs, A.B. Frakt.
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This article was published at www.annals.org on 11 October 2016.
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