You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams
TED Health
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Serum - Turn Dispensed Medications Into a Life Line
Ten billion dollars of perfectly good, unused medication goes to waste. Serum gets surplus medications by putting recycling bins into these hundreds of facilities that have surplus. We then deliver those donated medications to people who need it. By circumventing the traditional y chain, we're able to offer flat, transparent pricing - about two dollars for a month's supply of most medications. Our goal is to reach one million people with approaching a billion dollars of unused medicine in the next five years,. scaling our programme to 12 states. At this scale, we can actually cover communities that are home to forty per cent of the ten million people who lack consistent, affordable access.
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