(Bloomberg) -- Drug price increases hurt patients and disrupt the supply of medicine in the U.S., experts told a Senate panel that’s investigating the industry.
While companies should be rewarded for developing new drugs, the system “never anticipated companies acquiring off- patent drugs and then jacking up their prices to enormous heights,” Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said in a prepared statement at the start of the Senate Special Committee on Aging’s hearing Wednesday.
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