Drug Prices: Why So High and Why So #&*! Complicated

For all the Strum und Drang, experts foresee neither a hurry-up nor a halt for 2018, just a fairly steady continued rise at roughly last year's higher-than-inflation pace. The Drug Price Forecast, for example (based on hospital and nonacute settings, but not retail pharmacy), reports that that means a tidy year-over-year increase of 7.61%.