Doug Hirsch

Anytime anyone takes a step toward price transparency and lowering the costs of drugs [ it ] is a good thing, i still think it will be too expensive for most Americans.

I had the experience of taking a prescription into a pharmacy and the pharmacist said it would be $ 500, and I hadn't talked to my doctor about that. That seemed like an extraordinary price, and so I took the prescription back and I went to a few other pharmacies, and I found way different prices — $ 250, $ 400. And I thought there's got to be a better way. If I can compare prices for travel and for electronics, why can't I compare prices for health care ?