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Marty Makary: “The fastest growing area of health care spending in the…”

Featuring: Marty Makary, Commissioner of Food and Drugs | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:47

… Care act to make the price of health insurance premiums more affordable, lowering them by $2,500. Within seven years, they went up by $2,500, the opposite direction of the promise. The fastest growing area of health care spending in the United States is drug spending. And the fastest area of drug spending increases is with this new class of medicines called biologics. That's because they are derived from cell lines. It's an expensive process to develop biologics. (08:47–08:53)

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Asserts that drug spending is the fastest growing area of healthcare spending in the U.S.

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