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Alternatives to Government-Imposed Price Controls to Lower US Drug Prices

JAMA Health Forum 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5744

October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This JAMA Forum discusses the limits of most-favored-nation pricing and other price controls on US drugs and provides policy alternatives, including generic and biosimilar competition, value-based pricing, and reforms to pharmacy benefit managers.

Corresponding Author: Lanhee J. Chen, JD, PhD, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (lanhee.chen@stanford.edu).

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