Scott Gottlieb: “I see it as a strengthening, because we are going from a hard threshold of 30 percent to a risk-based threshold of 50…”

many hospitals are being forced to ration key medicines and patients to sit on waiting lists for vital drugs.

I think it is just awful that we would give false hopes and false promise to people that really want to access health care.

IPAB was created based on a premise that decisions about the pricing of Medicare's benefits are simply too contentious to be handled by a political process.

the most important incentive to developing useful information remains the ability for companies to market drugs based on what has been proven scientifically.