Gottlieb Unleashed: Focus on Drug Pricing To Intensify As He Rejoins AEI

Without constraints of being FDA commissioner, Gottlieb will have podium to push for changes to drug pricing and competition.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb

Drug pricing has been a signature issue for US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb so it's natural he will continue to focus on this at his post-FDA perch.

Gottlieb will be returning to the American Enterprise Institute after he leaves the agency April 5, and the issues he...

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