drug costs

Crain’s Grand Rapids Business staff writer Mark Sanchez talks about Blue Cross dropping coverage for an expensive specialty drug. University of Michigan economists predict tariff impacts on the state’s economy. And a professional soccer team will call Grand Rapids home, but from which league?

- Increased weight-loss drug use & cost control- Michigan prescription drug cost control board- Dialing back remote work- U of M economic outlook

Mark Sanchez from Crain’s Grand Rapids Business joins us to discuss:-Health care worker ad campaign-Controlling escalating drug costs-Regulating non-alcoholic beer in taprooms

We talk about a manufacturing slowdown and forecast the West Michigan economy for the remainder of 2017. Also, an analysis of drug costs and GVSU's new…