Your top 10 FAQ on drug prices

Some clarity for this wildly confusing topic.

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May 15, 2025

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It’s outrageous how much we pay for brand-name drugs in the U.S. An EpiPen is $600 here and just $67 in the U.K. On Monday, the administration dropped an executive order to tackle drug costs.

This issue is wildly confusing (sometimes I think that’s on purpose), but that doesn’t make it less important—drug prices shape the lives of millions of Americans.

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A guest post by

Aaron Kesselheim

Director, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomcis, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School