What Next | What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
May 27, 2025•29 min
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Episode description
A Revlimid pill costs about 25 cents to make, and about a thousand dollars to buy—but it’s keeping him alive, so what choice does he have?
Guest: David Armstrong, investigates healthcare at ProPublica, author of “The Price of Remission.”
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Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Isabel Angell, and Rob Gunther.
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