Car Shopping, Handbags and Wealthy Uncles: The Quest to Explain High Drug Prices (Audio) – NPR

Listen to program - As a guest on All Things Considered, Adrienne Faerber, lecturer for The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the challenges in explaining and fixing the drug pricing system. "When you go to the pharmacy you're not negotiating with the pharmacist for the cost of your drugs," says Faerber. (Faerber's comments begin at approximately 1:20.)