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The Campaign Against Drug Pricing: Candidates Can Only Hope Voters React As Strongly As Wall Street

 
• By Michael McCaughan

Wall Street remains hypersensitive to threats from Washington or the campaign trail to take action to limit prescription drug pricing. But it is still hard to see why the threat is any greater because the Clinton campaign has a “plan” to address the issue.

It was the Tweet heard around the world –at least, the world of biotech investors.

On September 21, Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in on a Twitter-fueled round of outrage tied to a New York Times article highlighting Turing Pharmaceuticals

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