Kyle Harrison
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Capitalizing a Cure

Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines
Author
Victor Roy
Published
2023
Pages
216
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Roy uses the hepatitis C cure — a genuine medical triumph priced at $84,000 a course — to show how financial claims on a drug decide what it costs and who gets it.

Where I saw it: Shown on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in the Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach store account’s BookTok video (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok” — saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@bnhuntingtonbeach/video/7461057163067165982

Connections

  • Healthcare — the subject.
  • Capital Allocation — the mechanism Roy is tracing.