Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes - The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices

Examines the pharmaceutical industry to expose how higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The landscape - where do the dollars flow; 3. PBMs and insurers; 4. Pharmacies, doctors, and patient groups; 5. May your drug price be ever green; 6. Solutions.

About the author

Robin Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings. She is an award-winning scholar whose work has been called 'absolutely remarkable' and a 'must read'. Feldman has published four books and more than fifty articles, and she has been cited by the White House and members of Congress. In 2017, she participated in the GAO's report to Congress on Artificial Intelligence and in an Army Cyber Institute threatcasting exercise on weaponization of data.

Summary

Feldman explains the secretive world of drug pricing deals that push patients into more expensive drugs. This book is intended for an audience of policymakers, scholars, jurists, higher education students, journalists, and general interest readers and aims to provide an accessible, easy-to-read tour of issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Feldman, Feldman Robin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108482455
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48245-5
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Internationales Recht, Ethik, Gesundheitswesen, Sozialrecht, Industrien und Branchenstudien, Politik und Staat, geistiges Eigentum, Medizinethik, Standesregeln, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, LAW / General, Ethos, Recht des Gesundheitswesens und Medizinrecht, International (Recht), Wettbewerbsrecht - Wettbewerbssache, Unternehmensrecht, Philosophie / Ethik, Urheberrecht - Urheberrechtsgesetz - UrhG, Copyright, Medizin / Recht, Kriminalität, Medizin / Kritik, Theologie, Ethik, Philosophie, Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Geistiges Eigentum, Englische Bücher / Naturwissenschaften / Medizin, Politics & government, Politics and government, intellectual property law, Medical & healthcare law, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medical and healthcare law, Competition law / Antitrust law