Why Do Drug Prices Keep Getting Higher?

Published on Nov 9, 2015
Americans are upset about how much their prescription drugs cost. While the cost of medicine is an issue that’s been lingering for years, when a tiny company called Turing Pharmaceuticals jacked up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent in August a lingering discussion went to the front of the national debate. Bloomberg’s Drew Armstrong explains why drug prices keep going up and if that’s likely to change anytime soon.