S5.E2 - Priced Out: In conversation with Dr. Jerry Avorn
Update: 2025-10-15
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A few years ago, a bus full of Americans crossed the border into Canada with Senator Bernie Sanders. They weren't coming for sightseeing. They came to buy insulin.
Unlike the bus of patients heading north for insulin, most Americans can't simply cross a border to escape the system. They live with it every day. How the U.S. end up with the most expensive drug pricing in the world?
In this episode, we discuss the current state of drug pricing in the United States with pharmaceutical policy pioneer Dr. Jerry Avorn, Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of Rethinking Medication: Truth, Power and the Drugs you Take.
Learn more: http://www.rethinkmeds.info/
Unlike the bus of patients heading north for insulin, most Americans can't simply cross a border to escape the system. They live with it every day. How the U.S. end up with the most expensive drug pricing in the world?
In this episode, we discuss the current state of drug pricing in the United States with pharmaceutical policy pioneer Dr. Jerry Avorn, Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of Rethinking Medication: Truth, Power and the Drugs you Take.
Learn more: http://www.rethinkmeds.info/
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