dana: growing pressure on capitol hill over the sky high cost of drugs, yet the industry is taking steps to raise prices even higher in 2019. jonathan serry has been looking into this for us. reporter: 13 year cancer survivor, robert stevens owes his thrive pharmaceuticals. these drugs, they saved my life, because there s no question i would not have survived. reporter: fortunately the retired ford executive has robust insurance to cover most of his medication, but his out of pocket costs are still high. i have been blessed with financial resources to afford this, but i would say the majority of americans in this country couldn t afford that. there s a lot of families in this country that have been financially destroyed by cancer dying know ses. reporter: pharmaceutical companies cite research and development as a reason americans pay more for drugs than citizens of other rich countries. but a report this month in the journal health affairs suggest