Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Robert Field, a professor of health management and policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health as well as a law professor at Drexel University, to discuss drug pricing and drug pricing transparency.     Approximately 20 to 30 million people don’t have health insurance. Robert and Aaron sit down to talk about the complex system of bargaining that happens in our health care system, the staggering prices that drug companies charge for certain treatments, and the middle men who haggle co-pays to a “reasonable” amount compared to the original sticker-shock prices. Dr. Field explains how these companies control monopolies over assorted life-saving drugs because they’re under patents. Are there limits to how much drug companies can charge? What is the reach of authority over drug pricing?   Aaron and Robert delve into the world of health care and tackle a variety of topics. They consider the impor