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Drug$
2018 · Film · documentary · 80 min
Directed by Jonathan Marshall Thompson
A feature-length documentary about the soaring price of medicines in the U.S., featuring interviews with academics, patients, advocates and political leaders, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Elijah Cummings. In a titanic struggle against corporate greed, see how a diverse group of concerned Americans is fighting back to keep lifesaving medicines affordable for us all.
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Pharma companies don't do their own R&D anymore, for the most part. The documentary, Drug$ (2018) does a tough takedown of the industry. Pharma companies acquire drugs from indie or academic researchers. What pharma companies do is get the drugs FDA approved then market them, and at the highest price the market will bear (meaning that some people can't afford them). In other words, there are no R&D expenses. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7394770/