Why Drugs Are So Expensive

1. VICE's Hamilton Morris explores the world of clandestine chemists, DIY bio hackers, and grey markets to see if a more democratized medicinal future is indeed possible.
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2. That chinese factory knew how to get business done

3. Answer: Inflation & Patents & Research

4. Here is the real problem that this didn't address. Other countries have lower drug prices because their governments haggle with the drug companies over what they can and can't charge for the medication. So people in the US can go to Mexico and get a drug that costs over $2000 here for $300 there, just an example and it's a specific drug I'm thinking about.
   Thanks to the way the system works, if you have health insurance your entire life and get something like cancer they raise the premiums until you can't afford to pay it anymore. Insurance is our enemy. It is literally a business that drives health care costs out of site. Hospitals, etc charge exorbitant amounts because they know insurance companies demand deep discounts. so when you get that $40,000 bill for surgery, your share is probably equal to or greater than what the insurance company actually pays. It's all a scam.

5. The red tie bald headed dude from Pharma just passed the blame to the insurance company

6. The USA has a completely broken health system. It's rather pathetic for the richest country in the world to have the worst Healthcare system.

7. 22,000 thousand dollars for meds, humanity is sick

8. The medication that best treated my migraines, DHE, has been around since 1946. It has a retail price of over $1,000. Something since pharmacies charge different prices it can be much more. Needless to say I don't use it and just grin and bear it. For the sick and terminal this should be criminal.

9. Pwede ko hilingin sa ibang bansa,kahit pa pabrika ng gamot para sa mga sakit

10. Was once told “everyone dies” by a medical professional when I brought up the cost of meds, and the ability to afford them or not

11. You could say we’re being priced out of being law abiding citizens

12. The fact that insulin has tripled in price in just ten years is so infuriating!

14. The executive guy was just spewing BS. I think he needs a deeper confrontation about how it is not feasible to pay for the drugs. "Dude, your patients cannot afford these drugs. Nobody has that kind of money except for you and you are showing us all that you want to keep it that way. You're literally saying that if you can't afford it, you can just die." That's what they need to hear every day

15. As someone who is writing a script for a drug crime story this is very informative. From my research, its how muvh like in the illicit world of drug selling, its not that much different from the pharmaceutical companies

16. AÞO that place is literal Fólkvagnr on earth 8:55

17. How much would things cost if it was all brocken down? Cost of raw material, a fair wage for the people involved in manufacture and distribution? Where does the profit go in mass manufacture? I feel so sorry for Americans and how their health is provided for! Insurance may cover you when you become ill, but I guess the people that don't get ill begrudge people that do? The NHS here in the UK was probably the fairest system in the World, it should not matter if you are rich or poor, we should all be treated equally? Class and wealth should not dictate who lives or dies…

18. You think drugs are expensive? Try buying a salad…now that sh*ts expensive!

19. Maybe there should be classes on making your own legal pharmaceuticals, with proper safety training. Its way cheaper and can be safe. If they're making medication, they probably don't want to die so they'll be careful. The prices companies charge for medication is tyrannical.

20. Because they're illegal mofos

21. Magic mushrooms, regulations, on drug prices!!!!!!

22. 😊

23. nurdrage represent!

24. …..the answer is because y'all love to put a price tag on everything and MEDICINE is on that list. Crazy because everyone on this planet needs a type of medicine at one point (several times) in their life.

25. Brutality of capitalism

26. NURD RAAAAGGEEE <3

27. Proud to be Pharmacist.

28. Imagine not wanting to pay for magic, because you did not work to stay healthy. 1+1=2

29. In Bangladesh, we have multiple companies making lenalidomide. All of them are roughly equal in terms of price.A single tablet from all of these brands cost around 200 BDT or 1.83 USD only.

    This is insane….!

30. after watching this video i have never been more angry than ever even if i use drugs i cannto belive this that the usa govurment would let this happend

31. i like how america accepts that the rich will get richer and while the poor get pooer isnt fair

32. The sad thing is Dr. Banting didn't patent insulin because he wanted it to be easily available to anyone who needed it. Little did he know that 100 years later it would still be too expensive for so many….

33. Greed

34. Doctors can’t prescribe food and who’s going to run a carrot through FDA approvals that costs millions?

35. Bro got the purest form lenolidamine for free. And it could cost someone in US 3M?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

36. China is the plug

37. Drugs are only expensive for all Rich people they tend to overdoses

38. Free chemicals for everyone!!! chemestry should be teached from the elementary school..

39. I didn't know
    Shroud the pubg player is a Vice Journalist lol

40. The healthcare industry is such a fucking unnecessarily scammified shitshow in America. And we won't get to do a damn thing about it until the south secedes. That option sounds better all the time. Freeloaders.

41. These soulless companies pray to money not God. As long as their pockets are full of money who gives a shite about your fellow man.

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