Can We Make Medicines Affordable?

I've read more than my share of official reports decrying the current state of our ailing healthcare system. Indeed, it's tantamount to an occupational hazard. Rarely have I read such a scathing, even damning, public report from an irrefutable source such as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I therefore wish to discuss that consensus study report, titled “Making Medicines Affordable: A National Imperative,”1 which was first released at the end of 2017 and was prepared by a panel of healthcare experts. My goal is to highlight some of the political and cultural underpinnings of the report, and to make a special reference to a potential plan moving forward