# Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz discusses the rising cost of prescription drugs

1 Faculty News August 28, 2015 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150828-column.html) -- "'If brand-name manufacturers do not get their investment worth, guess what — no new drugs,' said [Rosa Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), an adjunct associate professor at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'And then who loses? All of us.'"

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