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Explain It to Me

Drugs! (But not the fun kind)

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Dara and Matt discuss the the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs and a white paper that looks at the correlation between counties that vote Republican and the number of low and high-skilled immigrants living in those communities. References and further reading: Dylan Scott's piece on the price of prescription drugs mentioned by Sarah The white paper on 'The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My favorite is just somehow make other countries pay more for trucks.

0:04.6

That one's the silliest.

0:19.4

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weed Some of Vox Media podcast network.

0:23.2

I'm Matthew Glacier, which we've got Jarellyn, Sarah Cliff here today.

0:27.2

One talk about prescription drug pricing.

0:30.0

The Trump administration rolled out some new proposals on that we're going to talk about later.

0:34.4

But no, it's just this is like a big topic of concern.

0:37.8

I mean, I know my friends who work just in politics.

0:40.5

They tell me that when they look at surveys, like what are people worried about?

0:44.3

What's bothering people about America today as the economy improves?

0:48.8

The high cost of prescription drugs is like a big issue for a lot of people.

0:53.6

It's been a concern for a while, but it seems to be getting worse on the business end.

0:59.3

There's a lot of weird mergers happening that seem to have something to do with prescription drugs.

1:05.1

Sarah knows a lot about this.

1:07.1

Hopefully, I can help us explain what's going on here.

1:13.0

Why are people breaking the back of their country?

1:15.6

Let's just start with a few basic facts.

1:20.6

United States routinely has the highest prices for prescription drugs in the world.

1:26.4

And we're often talking about literally the exact same pill, the exact same injectable,

1:31.7

the exact same type of chemotherapy.

1:34.0

It just costs three, four, ten times more to purchase it in the United States than to purchase it

1:40.1

abroad. So that is...

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