State of the Union should put patients first — not price controls that threaten innovation | Op-Ed

State of the Union should put patients first — not price controls that threaten innovation | Op-Ed

In his State of the Union address, the President spoke about the urgent need to lower prescription drug costs for American families, a goal everyone shares. Here in New Jersey, hundreds of thousands of patients rely on life-saving and life-changing medications every day. Affordability matters deeply to them. But how we lower costs matters just as much as the goal itself. Proposals centered on government price-setting or so-called “price controls…