VT: Drug makers told to explain price hikes

Burlington Free Press: MONTPELIER - Vermont is poised to become the first state requiring drug companies to explain their price increases, and Bob and Deborah Messing think that’s a good idea.

The Messings live in Montpelier and are in their early 70s. She’s on Orencia, a Bristol-Myers Squibb product, for rheumatoid arthritis. He recently finished a course of Harvoni, made by Gilead Sciences Inc., to treat hepatitis C.

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