{"product_id":"sick-money-billy-kenber-9781838850265","title":"Sick Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient care has been co-opted to drive profit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat drugs are being researched, how medicines are priced, who has access to which medicines is now being dictated by share-holder value, not the good of the public - who enjoy ever-diminishing benefits for ever-higher prices. Drugs companies are being fined for bribing doctors in Eastern Europe while patients desperate for life-saving medicines are being driven to the black market in search of drugs the NHS can't afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSick Money argues that the way we research medicines and pay for them is no longer working. Unless we take action we risk a dramatic decline in the pace of drug development and a future in which medicines are only available to the highest bidder. In this book Billy Kenber offers a diagnosis of an industry in crisis and a prescription for how we can fight back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Billy Kenber","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175548256499,"sku":"9781838850265","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781838850265.jpg?v=1662075342","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/sick-money-billy-kenber-9781838850265","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}