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Listen: Pandemics, Patents and Profits

Analysis  |  By KFF Health News  
   May 14, 2021

The Atlantic's "Social Distance" podcast discusses the current patent controversy.

This podcast was published on Friday, May 14, 2021 in Kaiser Health News.

Julie Rovner, KHN's chief Washington correspondent, joins The Atlantic's "Social Distance" podcast, hosted by Dr. James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins, to talk about the current patent controversy and how the drug industry has protected itself over the years with vibrant campaigns about the needs for high profits to support drug development.

KFF Health News is a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.


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