When

Fri, June 08, 2018
12 pm - 1:30 pm
(GMT-05:00) America/Chicago

Where

James A. Baker III Hall

Prescription drug expenditures are projected to reach $360.2 billion in 2018. Per capita spending on these drugs rose 5 percent in 2015 and 3.5 percent in 2016. The public is outraged by stories of Martin Shkreli raising the price of Daraprim by 5,000 percent, and Mylan raising the price of a pair of EpiPens by 400 percent. Meanwhile, the cost of treatment with the most novel anticancer drugs has risen by 400 percent over the past 10 years, and the cost of treatment with new drugs that can cure Hepatitis C is tens of thousands of dollars. Will the prices of prescription drugs continue to rise at extraordinary rates? Are a handful of blockbuster drugs to blame, or will all patients be forced to pay rapidly rising prices? At this event, Vivian Ho, director of the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences, explored these questions and described the policy options to control drug price increases being recommended by policymakers, researchers and clinicians.

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Registration

The cost of attendance for the general public was $50. Health Policy Forum and Roundtable members received complimentary admission. Lunch was provided.

 



For more information regarding membership, please visit the Health Policy Forum webpage. You can download the Health Policy Forum Brochure and/or contact the Center for Health and Biosciences at bakerchb@rice.edu or 713.348.2735.

The Health Policy Forum would like to thank its members:

Corporate: Baylor College of Medicine; CHI St. Luke’s Health • Patron: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Community Health Choice; The Episcopal Health Foundation • Benefactor: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Texas Children’s Hospital • Individual: Cullen K. Geiselman; Wade A. Rakes II and Nicholas Miller; Texas Heart Institute; UTMB, Office of the President
 

 

When

Fri, June 08, 2018
12 pm - 1:30 pm
(GMT-05:00) America/Chicago

Where

James A. Baker III Hall