As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

(By Harris Meyer for Kaiser Health News)

Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels.

These bills, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats in a half-dozen states, are a response to consumers’ intensified demand for action on drug prices as prospects for solutions from Congress remain highly uncertain.  Continue reading the article here…

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