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Marketplace All-in-One

The “for-profit” in our health care system is showing

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 drug Paxlovid will soon hit the commercial market, and it won’t be cheap. We’ll talk about what the change means for patients and the drug’s accessibility. Plus, drone drug delivery is coming to certain rural communities. Also, in one woman’s case, a new pet is just what the doctor ordered.

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    0:00.0

    I love the little chuckle. Hey, everybody. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to make me smart,

    0:10.1

    but we make today make sense and that chuckle belongs to me, Amy Scott. It's been a while. Hi,

    0:17.6

    everybody. I'm in for Kai today. Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday, October 18th.

    0:23.8

    Today we're going to do some news and get to some smiles. But first, the big news of the day,

    0:28.8

    of course, is that it's a big day for you, Amy. It's the launch of the new season for how we

    0:34.4

    survive. Whoo. Crowd goes wild. Congratulations. Tell us a bit about what the listeners can expect

    0:41.9

    this season. I have not seen or heard from you in like months as you've been working on. I know,

    0:46.3

    right? Our heads have been down working hard. So this season is all about water in the west.

    0:53.0

    And how basically we're going to keep living in places that are getting drier as the planet gets hotter.

    0:58.8

    And actually a couple of folks on your team have been helping out. Marissa and Courtney have been

    1:03.2

    working as producers. So we're going to be talking about basically solutions more than 20 years

    1:09.4

    now into a mega drought that's been plaguing much of the west. The predictions for the future are

    1:15.2

    pretty dire. Yes, California and some other places had a wet year, but it does not break the overall

    1:20.8

    trend. The Colorado River, which is sort of the lifeblood of the region has lost trillions of

    1:26.0

    gallons of its flow to warming temperatures. We've been over pumping groundwater. And yet people

    1:32.3

    keep moving to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, these fast growing metro areas that depend on a shrinking

    1:39.1

    resource. And so this season we're kind of looking at what happens when that growth butts up

    1:44.4

    against the limits of nature. And lest you think it's super depressing, which of course it is

    1:49.8

    on a deep level. There are actually some really interesting solutions to this problem in some

    1:55.8

    ways. I think it's a more hopeful season than we've had in the past. And as always on how we

    2:00.7

    survive, we have some fun exploring. I do a bunch of water taste tests around the southwest.

    2:06.9

    I hope you'll check it out. Taste tests. We have to get Kai on board with some of those that you've

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