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S1 Ep10: Financing the war on cancer

Aug 17, 201811 minSeason 1Ep. 10
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Episode description

New drugs mean that many types of cancer are no longer a death sentence. But new medical treatments may have a catastrophic financial cost for patients. Tim Phillips talks to Ralph Koijen about how life insurance, not medical insurance, might finance the war on cancer.

Read more about this, and other groundbreaking research, at VoxEU.org.

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