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Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty

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Is There a Trade-Off?

Bob Greene: If you had an opportunity to extend your life by a few months, most people would want to know how much money they'd have to spend. He says the FDA combined with the way we've decided to subsidize healthcare is what's making it worse. Greene: We're taking all this societal money in the name of cancer patients. We're choosing to do one thing with it, not the other thing.

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