Pharma, President, Patients: the cancer cost conundrum

What price do you put on the health, and even the life, of an individual?  President Donald Trump called out the pharmaceutical industry during his campaign and after his inauguration, insisting drug prices were too high – “astronomical” – and declaring in his first State of the Union address (begins at the 2:00, and discusses pricing at 3:45) that “fixing the injustice of high drug prices is one of the top priorities” of 2018.That set off a number of declarations, speculations, reactions, and, in true Trump style, tweets, culminating this July with the President blasting Pfizer for raising dug prices,...