05 Feb 2016 07:53 (Bloomberg View) — Shkreli, etc. The system for pricing prescription drugs in the U.S. is a bit of a disaster. Our reliance on medical insurance means that pricing is not based on consumer demand or ability to pay. Nor is it exactly based on negotiations with

published Oct 17th 2016, 8:30 am, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — Forty-one years ago, 14 people gathered in a small room on California Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the wedding of an aspiring local politician and his law school sweetheart from up north. The bride was wearing a $53