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The Price of Health - The Modern Pharmaceutical Enterprise and the Betrayal of a History of Care (Hardcover)
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The Price of Health - The Modern Pharmaceutical Enterprise and the Betrayal of a History of Care (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 640
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From "pharma bros" to everday household budgets, just how did the
pharmaceutical industry betray its own history-and how can it
return to its tradition of care? It's an unfortunate and
life-threatening fact: one in five Americans has skipped vital
prescriptions simply because of the cost. These choices are being
made even though we have reached a point in the conveyance of
medical options where cancers can be cured and sight restored for
those blinded by rare genetic disorders. How, in this time of such
advancements, did we reach a point, where people cannot afford the
very things that could save their lives? As the COVID-19 global
pandemic has pointed out, we need the leadership of scientists,
researchers, public health officials and lawmakers alike to guide
us through not only in times of a global health crisis, but also
during far more mundane times. For the first time in decades,
people from all walks of life face the same need for medicine. It
is time to discuss the tough questions about drug pricing in an
open, honest and, hopefully, transparent manner. But first we must
understand how we, as a society, got here. Medicines are arguably
the most highly regulated-and cost-inflated-products in the United
States. The discovery, development, manufacturing and distribution
of medicines is carried out by an ever more complex and crowded set
of industries, each playing a part in a larger "pharmaceutical
enterprise" seeking to maximize profits. But this was not always
the case. The Price of Health is the reveals the story of how the
pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis.
The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry is suffering from
self-inflicted wounds and its continued viability, indeed survival,
is increasingly questioned. Yet the drug makers do not shoulder all
the blame or responsibility for the current price crisis. Deeply
researched, The Price of Health gives us hope as to how we can
still right the ship, even amidst the roiling storm of a global
pandemic. How have medicines have been made and distributed to
consumers throughout the years? What sea of changes that have
contributed to rising costs? Some individuals, actions, and systems
will be familiar, others may surprise. Yet the combined
implications of these actions for will be surprising and at times
shocking to both industry professionals and average Americans
alike. Like so much else in human history, the history of the
pharmaceutical enterprise is populated mostly by well-intended and
even noble individuals and organizations. Each contributed to the
formation or maintenance of structures meant to improve the quality
and quantity of life through the development and distribution of
medicines. And yet systems originally created to do good have often
been subverted in ways contrary to the motivations of their
creators. Only by understanding this disconnect can we better
tackle the underlying problems of the industry head on, preventing
foreseeable, and thus avoidable, medical calamities to come.
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