Medicaid Directors Suggest Gov't Price Controls For Specialty Drugs Like Sovaldi

Medicaid directors want the federal government to either control the price of specialty drugs such as Sovaldi or help states pay for them. The National Association of Medicaid Directors wrote Congress Tuesday (Oct. 28) with several suggestions, including government price controls and the state vaccination model, in which the federal government pays for drugs and states pay to administer them. “While we recognize that direct price controls would be a politically volatile topic which could be expected to encounter substantial...