Policy options for the drug pricing conundrum.

• Tác giả: Kate Ho, Ariel Pakes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 658.816 Pricing
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 691891

Tóm tắt

 Current proposals aimed at reducing U.S. pharmaceutical prices would have immediate benefits (particularly for low-income and elderly populations), but could dramatically reduce firms' investment in potentially highly welfare-improving Research and Development (R&D). The United States subsidizes the worldwide pharmaceutical market: U.S. drug prices are more than 250% of those in other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. If each drug had a single international price across the highest-income OECD countries and total pharmaceutical firm profits were held fixed: U.S. prices would fall by half
  every other country's prices would increase (by 28 to over 300%)
  and R&D incentives would be maintained. We propose a potential lever for the U.S. government to influence worldwide drug pricing: access to the Medicare market.