When It Comes to Drug Prices, Who Are You Going to Believe?

Your choices are a professor holding a chair endowed by a pharmaceutical testing company and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The professor, Darius Lakdawalla, holds the Quintiles chair at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California. In a NYT "Room for Debate" piece on pharmaceutical prices (I was also a contributor), Lakdawalla told readers:

"drug spending has been growing no faster than overall health care spending over the past 10 years."

That is not what the good...