Episode 098: How the 340B Drug Program to Help the Poor Get Medicine Doesn't Work

Today's discussion begins way back in the early 1990s when Congress was trying to figure out a way to reduce its health care expenses. Sound familiar? Some things never change. And this story is as old as Congress itself as legislators try to solve one problem and end up creating a bigger mess that actually ends up creating far more harm than was occurring with the original. It goes by the rather harmless name of the 340B program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices