KJZZ is a service of Rio Salado College,
and Maricopa Community Colleges

Copyright © 2024 KJZZ/Rio Salado College/MCCCD
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

The Price Of Drug Prescriptions: Is True Reform Possible?

In late February, the Senate Finance Committee assembled the nation’s top pharmaceutical company executives and grilled them on why prescription drugs remain so high. AbbVie Pharmaceuticals’ CEO, Richard Gonzalez, pushed back, arguing that without a high sticker price, progress stops.

So what are the costs of doing business for American drug makers? And is true reform possible?

With The Show to talk about that was Kenneth Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

More Stories From KJZZ

Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.