Show 1277: Why Our Healthcare Costs Are So High

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Over the last year and a half, while the nation endured a terrible pandemic, patients with COVID-19 were treated even if they couldn’t foot the bills themselves. Will the high cost of COVID break the bank? Now that people will end up paying for treatment out of their own pockets, will more Americans than ever […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.
0:12.4	com.
0:14.0	COVID has taken an unbelievable human toll.
0:18.0	It's also resulted in huge economic losses.
0:21.0	Who will pay the bill? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and
0:26.7	Joe Grayden. Dr Elizabeth Rosenthal was an emergency physician before she became a journalist.
0:39.8	She's now editor-in-chief at Kaiser Health News. She describes an eye-popping bill for a COVID test.
0:47.0	Most patients did not have to pay for their COVID-care last year, but the government and insurance companies are now moving
0:55.1	the goalposts. Millions of people are suffering from long COVID who will pay for
1:00.5	their treatment and how much will it cost.
1:03.3	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learnlines, the Food and Drug Administration recently
1:19.8	announced the recall of the blood pressure medicine herbisartin.
1:24.0	All batches of this blood pressure medicine made by the Indian drug company
1:28.0	Luppin are being pulled off pharmacy shelves.
1:31.2	That also includes herbisartin and hydrochlor thiocide pills.
1:35.0	Urbusartin is referred to as an angiotensin receptor blocker or ARB, ARB, ARB for short.
1:41.0	The problem involves a contaminant called in nitroso herbisartin. Nitroso compounds are
1:47.9	considered probable carcinogens. This is not the first time arbs have been recalled because of contamination.
1:55.0	Blood pressure medications such as Valsartan and Low Sartan have been recalled
2:00.0	because of other nitroesamine impurities such as N nitroso dimenolamine or NDMA.
2:07.0	Millions of pills had to be destroyed because of this probable carcinogen.
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