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Op-Ed
December 27, 2021
There was a lot of hope at the start of 2021: COVID-19 vaccines had just arrived, an end to the pandemic seemed on the horizon, and a fresh start for the global economy was ahead. By now, it feels like much of January’s optimism was as inflated as today’s prices. But in the spirit of starting the ne...
Op-Ed
May 06, 2021
Big Pharma offers an easy punching bag. To some extent, the hostility is understandable. Pharmaceutical companies make their money by selling lifesaving innovations that they alone control. When prices are too high, people are forced into poverty to pay for medicine, or they get sick and die for lac...
Op-Ed
February 22, 2021
Everyone thought the U.S. was well prepared to battle a pandemic. The country ranked first worldwide on the 2019 Global Health Security Index, an effort explicitly created to track abilities to address infectious disease outbreaks that was widely touted by the Drumpf administration in the early days...