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Laws To Control Cancer Drug Costs Don’t Help Patients With Highest Expenses

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Arlene Weintraub From: forbes.com When state legislators started enacting laws in 2011 to prevent insurance companies from charging patients more for oral cancer drugs than they do for cheaper, infused medicines, the idea was to shield the public from sky-high, out-of-pocket drug costs. But a new study is raising disturbing questions about the effectiveness of these “parity” laws, which have been …