%0 Journal Article %T Can We Make Medicines Affordable? %A David B. Nash %J Archive of "American Health & Drug Benefits". %D 2018 %X I've read more than my share of official reports decrying the current state of our ailing healthcare system. Indeed, it's tantamount to an occupational hazard. Rarely have I read such a scathing, even damning, public report from an irrefutable source such as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I therefore wish to discuss that consensus study report, titled ˇ°Making Medicines Affordable: A National Imperative,ˇ±1 which was first released at the end of 2017 and was prepared by a panel of healthcare experts. My goal is to highlight some of the political and cultural underpinnings of the report, and to make a special reference to a potential plan moving forward %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207311/