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Prescription Drug Coverage: Medicine or Science?
Author(s) -
Herbst Jennifer L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.186
Subject(s) - medical prescription , government (linguistics) , prescription drug , health care , business , family medicine , scientific evidence , drug , actuarial science , medicine , political science , pharmacology , law , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
Under what circumstances should the federal government pay for outpatient prescription drugs? Should the government (and by extension, taxpayers) pay for all of the drugs prescribed by health care providers, regardless of price or use—adhering to a medical standard? Or should taxpayers only pay for prescriptions supported by scientific evidence of effectiveness—a scientific standard?