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Regulating Drug Prices while Increasing Innovation

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  • Rena M. Conti, Ph.D.,
  • Richard G. Frank, Ph.D.,
  • and Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D.

To save money on drugs while encouraging high-value pharmaceutical innovation, we need to better reward value, increase NIH funding for early-stage research, and reduce expenses and risks for developers of drugs whose social value exceeds their financial value.

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This article was published on November 13, 2021, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the Department of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston (R.M.C.); the USC–Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (R.G.F.); and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (J.G.).

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