Cancer Patients Forgo Life-Saving Medications Because Of High Prices



Many cancer patients across the United States are forgoing life-saving medications because the costs are too high. NBC News’ Berkeley Lovelace Jr. reports on the experiences many patients have and if anything is being done to change the exorbitant prices.
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24 comments

  1. It's not just cancer medication, I have not filled medication due to price.

  2. Rich people are pure evil. We should take away everything they own.

  3. America funds wars not healthcare!

  4. Quick politicians, blame each other and make us feel you actually care with your fake convictions. YES WE CAN, NOPE WE DIDN'T. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS ALWAYS GREAT AND YOU MADE IT WORSE. BUILD BACK BETTER, WHY DID YOU LET IT GET THIS BAD.

  5. Why do we give giant pharmaceutical companies free money to research and develop drugs so they could turn around and sell them back to us at ridiculously over inflated prices people can't even afford?
    A. Is it the greedy pharmaceutical companies that don't care about the people.
    B. Is the greedy individuals in our government that don't care about the people.
    C. Both A and B.

  6. I wonder how many are MAGAs.

  7. Taxes for Healthcare not bombs!

  8. Our taxes should go to Healthcare not oil companies!

  9. Healthcare for profit! Welcome to Capitalist America!

  10. They make insulin in house now, what about other medications!? CEO drives a Mazzarratti home to his Yacht…

  11. Our government CAN AFFORD to give this medication to patients, but instead they choose to spend BILLIONS elsewhere.

  12. Well isn't that special! The new American way! Pick your own fate (eat or cancer meds)?

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  14. Bidens America…total disaster…

  15. Welcome to Brandon’s America! He and his voters need to be held accountable!

  16. Why doesn't her/their SS pay for it? Mine does, I don't even have a co-pay.

  17. It's a capitalist utopia!

  18. Capitalism working very much fine tuned the prices should be higher if you ask me more money for the shareholders

  19. It's not so much the capitalism as much as it is the shameless capitalism. That's awful πŸ˜³πŸ˜žπŸ’™πŸ¦‹πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²

  20. Where are those pro life republicans when you need them?

  21. Been out for w decades (for the elites)