In January, amid widespread national concern over soaring prescription drug prices, Donald J. Trump, then the president-elect, told reporters that the industry was “getting away with murder.”
Indeed, some doctors — frustrated by what they see as unreasonable price tags and political stagnation — are coming up with their own do-it-yourself solutions. Their efforts to bring down costs for their patients highlight the arbitrary and often needlessly exorbitant prices of drugs in the United States, they say.
