Including medicare for all and the Affordable Care act. Analysts include healthcare policy experts and journalists. Thank you, everybody for coming. Continue to enjoy your lunch. Im tim carney, a visiting fellow here at American Enterprise institute as well as being the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. We are here to talk about health care but i want to ask a a specific question about health care. Its a question that some people on the Free Enterprise side, the freemarket conservative or libertarian side dont always ask, who benefits. I think sometimes people on the right or right of center are uncomfortable with that question in policy debates because they say why should it matter who benefits . We see Elizabeth Warren will say tax cut is bad because rich people benefit. But i think its actually a very important thing to talk about. One influences are debates get a free member and 20 2008 campaign and the passage of obamacare, barack obama thought it was important to poin
Prescription drug corporation. Jon, thank you for coming over from des moines. Jon rosmann thahas for the opportunity. Craig vansandt as i said, our topic t tay is the ethics of drug pricing. There has been no shortage of news this fall about price increases with prescription drugs. If you read the news, you see that prices, or at least it seems to be, that prices are going up very rapdly. Ben, id like to start off f e questions with you as a phd student. Is the popular press giving us an accurate picture . Are prices going up this rapidly . Ben urick you know, i would say it depends on the medications you look at. If we talk about brand name pharmaceuticals, the answer is yes. Certainly things like sovaldi, made by gilead pharmaceutut als, for hepatitis c, coming out at 86,000 is an incredible price to pay for a know, im sure many of the viewers have heard about daraprim that was purchased by Turing Pharmaceuticals who then increased the price 5000 . Now, those are extreme cases but i
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