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Is profit or innovation driving the rising costs of drugs?

Is profit or innovation driving the rising costs of drugs?

09/29/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Is profit or innovation driving the rising costs of drugs?

Clip: 9/29/2015 | 7m 8s

Is profit or innovation driving the rising costs of drugs?

Turing Pharmaceuticals sparked outcry when it raised the price of a single pill from $13 to $750. Judy Woodruff discusses the rising costs of prescriptions drugs with Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dr. Thomas Stossel of Harvard Medical School.

09/29/2015 | Rating NR

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