For Today’s Hearing on the Drug Delivery System, ‘Follow The Pill’

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold a hearing this morning on the cost of prescription drugs. The second in a series of hearings on drug costs, today’s hearing is expected to take a close look at the drug delivery system. It’s an important topic, but also a very complicated one. The drug cost ecosystem includes multiple players and each one has a unique role in bringing medicines from research labs to pharmacies and deciding how much patients pay