Trump changed the drug-price game. Now everyone is gaming the system
President Donald Trump’s most-favored-nation drug policy was always going to do more than change prices. It was going to change behavior.
TL;DR
- Trump's most-favored-nation drug policy was intended to change more than prices.
- The policy aimed to influence the behavior of industry stakeholders.
- Game theory principles suggest that changes in rewards and penalties lead to altered player behavior.
- Altering the rules of a system will result in different ways of playing the game.