In the latest installment of WFAE’s health care series The Price We Pay, we take a look at medication costs. Americans spend twice as much on medical care as people in other wealthy countries, and one of the reasons is the high prices of our prescription drugs. We pay, on average, 2 1/2 times for the same medicines. Why? Mike Collins and a panel of experts discuss.
The focus this week includes: a #Tech4Rights Expo; a national conference on Combating Illicit Financial Flows; the impact of Covid-19 on the existing health crisis and also African civic society organisations; the Way Forward on the Trips Waiver, a webinar on “Disinformation destroys democrac.
Pfizer has 73 formalized deals for its vaccine, but only five have been formally published and include redactions. Public Citizen reviewed seven unredacted deals worth a combined $5 billion.