Weatherhead School’s J.B. Silvers talks about spike in prescription costs

Prescription drug costs become a huge health care concern
NewsNet5: J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, talked about spikes in prescription costs. “The ones we’ve seen lately are existing drugs where somebody else buys the existing drug and then cranks up the price until somebody can come in and compete with them, and that’s pure exploitation,” he said.