Biden slams cancer drug price increases

Amid calls Wednesday for collaboration and engagement, Vice President Joe Biden threw barbs at the pharmaceutical industry and government-funded researchers.

Opening a summit meeting of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Biden said treatments "need to be affordable," but the "costs of life-saving drugs are astronomical." He asked, "What is the possible justification when a life-saving drug is brought to market at ... $26,000 a year, and 15 years later it costs $120,000?" ...