Americans and New Yorkers are by now familiar with the cycles of outrage over skyrocketing prescription drug prices, not the least of which was Martin Shkreli raising the price of a toxoplasmosis drug, Daraprim, by several thousand percent overnight. So it’s understandable that Gov. Cuomo’s latest budget proposal includes an attempt to address drug pricing in New York State.
But while making drugs more affordable is a noble goal, the governor’s proposal would do nothing of the sort. It is shallow politics and little more.
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