RT Book, Section A1 Christensen, Clayton M. A1 Grossman, Jerome H. A1 Hwang, Jason SR Print(0) ID 1150326297 T1 The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry T2 The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259860867 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150326297 RD 2024/10/14 AB Are drugs, which comprise about 10 percent of overall health-care costs,1 part of the health-care cost problem? Or are they part of the solution? Critics of the pharmaceutical industry often point to the rise in spending on pharmaceuticals—which doubled between 1995 and 2002—as a major culprit in the unsustainable increase in health-care spending during these years.2 Others assert that while they are expensive on a per-ounce basis, pharmaceutical solutions are much cheaper than other alternatives for care.