Notable Limitations of the Latest Drug Pricing Report

In a new report, Sen. Claire McCaskill, the ranking Democratic lawmaker on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, suggests that prices for medications prescribed most commonly under Medicare have experienced average annual increases of 12% during the last several years.
The report perpetuates many of the same myths about prescription drug spending that we see all too often. Ed Silverman, a columnist and senior writer at STAT News, noted that the report suffers from a &ldq