Big pharmacies take on big pharma to lower drug prices

Big drug buyers like Express Scripts and CVS/Caremark are refusing to buy certain drugs where alternatives are available to force drug makers to lower prices.  Here is an interesting example:

Express Scripts dropped Advair, a popular asthma drug, and offered its customers Symbicort instead. As a result, Glaxo dropped the price of Advair and Symbicort went down, too. This is a welcome development.

(To read the full NPR article, click on the above graph.)