I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.
John Kitzhaber
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.
John Kitzhaber
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.