Reeling in runaway drug prices
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
While the presidential candidates are being asked to reveal their personal medical profiles, the prices of life-saving medications are increasing dramatically. We look at how that's happening and what might be done.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Barrow. |
| 0:02.0 | On Thursday, October 20th, KCRW is coming out of our basement studios for a civilized, yet provocative, left, right, and center live. |
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| 0:17.0 | I'll be joined by Kelly Goff, Jean Sperling, and Mona Charon as we dissect Trump |
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| 0:30.8 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:39.3 | And politics cure the high cost of drugs. |
| 0:45.5 | Hello again, I'm Aronaldi, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:48.5 | It's not just EpiPens and the Mylan Company. |
| 0:51.0 | Drug prices are on the rise, and desperately ill people are often those hit |
| 0:54.6 | by bills they never expected. Other countries have established price controls for life or death |
| 0:59.4 | medications, but America's system is so complex it defies understanding. Drug and insurance companies, |
| 1:05.9 | hospitals, and doctors are engaged in secret negotiations while various middlemen get cuts of |
| 1:10.7 | the action. |
| 1:12.0 | And who's paying for those expensive ads on TV? |
| 1:15.1 | Patients. |
| 1:16.0 | Are the presidential campaigns offering any realistic solutions? |
| 1:20.3 | Later on today's talking point, how come a Muslim recruited on campus by the Marines |
| 1:24.9 | killed himself during training? |
| 1:27.5 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:32.6 | Check out KCRW's All News Channel, News 24. |
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