A Tale Of Two (Very Different) Drug Prices

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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NPR Pharmaceuticals Correspondent Sydney Lupkin joins us to talk about a dad who learned his daughter needed an expensive drug — but there was a nearly identical one that was thousands of dollars cheaper. It's part of NPR's Bill of the Month series, which is done in partnership with Kaiser Health News. Follow Emily and Sydney on Twitter. They're @EmilyKwong1234 and @slupkin. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey everybody, Emily Kwong here with Sydney Lupkin, NPR's pharmaceuticals correspondent.
0:10.2	Hey.
0:11.2	Hey there.
0:12.2	Okay, so you have this outrageous story to share about drug pricing?
0:15.4	Yes, it is part of our Bill of the Month series in partnership with Kaiser Health News,
0:21.0	and it's about one family, but it tells a bigger story about how difficult it is to navigate
0:26.8	our healthcare system.
0:28.7	I went out with my producer, Jane Greenholtch, to visit Cedip Tuxallion, Oregon.
0:33.0	Hello.
0:34.0	Hi.
0:35.0	I'm Sydney here.
0:36.0	Hi, Cedip Tuxallion, welcome.
0:37.5	Okay, so what brought you and Jane to Cedip's doorstep?
0:41.9	Well, Cedip has a daughter.
0:44.0	We adopted our daughter about two years ago from India.
0:47.3	Who we're not going to name for the sake of protecting her medical privacy.
0:51.3	And you adopted her when she was how old?
0:53.2	She was six when we got her.
0:55.6	And she's eight years old now, but...
0:57.9	Last summer, we noticed that she was starting to show more puberty-like changes.
1:03.9	Like, her parents noticed she was getting really tall for her age, taller than their 12-year-old son.
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