Meet Zoey
Critical Questions
Who is This Mini-Course For?
About Your Instructors
Why Should You Take This Mini-Course?
How This Mini-Course is Structured
How Long Will It Take?
Check Your Understanding Quiz: Welcome to this Mini-Course
Chapter 1 Intro
Chapter 1 Overview
Presenting…Three Top Drug Innovations of the Past 50 Years
AZT
Atorvastatin
Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for Hepatitis C
Tremendous Benefits
Medications Change Lives... And (Temporarily) Cost a Lot of Money
The Mortgage and Rent Models of Healthcare Spending
The Biotech Social Contract
Check Your Understanding Quiz 1.1: The Benefits of Drug Development
Chapter 1 Summary
The Human Trial
Chapter 2 Overview
The Process, Risks, and Costs of Bringing a New Drug to Market
Test Your Knowledge: What Do You Know About Drug Development?
What Do You Know About Drug Development?
Check Your Understanding 2.1: How Does the FDA Approve a Drug?
Drug Development Timeline: Preclinical
Drug Development Timeline: Clinical Trials
Drug Development Timeline: Clinical Trials continued
Drug Development Timeline: The Approval Process
Scale of Drug Development
What Are The Odds A Drug Will Make It?
Operation Warp Speed
Check Your Understanding Quiz 2.2: How New Drugs Get Developed
What is the Value of a New Medicine?
Value to the World: Part 1
Value to the World: Part 2
The Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry and its Key Players: Part 1
The Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry and its Key Players: Part 2
Check Your Understanding Quiz 2.3: Value, The Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry, and Key Players
Chapter 2 Summary
How Much Exactly?
Chapter 3 Overview
Understand This First: Biotech vs. Pharma – What’s the Difference?
So How Profitable is the Biopharma Industry?
Who are Investors?
Why Do We Need Investors?
Why Investors Fund Biotech Startups: Part 1
Why Investors Fund Biotech Startups: Part 2
Why Investors Fund Biotech Startups: Part 3
Making Investment Decisions
Uninvestable Spaces 1: Allergies
Uninvestable Spaces 2: Antibiotics
Check Your Understanding Quiz 3.1: Venture Capital Investment in Biotech Innovation
Chapter 3 Summary
Drugs are Too Expensive... Right?
Chapter 4 Overview
Who Can Afford a $2M Drug?
What are the Primary Factors That Influence a Drug’s Price?
Video: How Drug Pricing Works
What the Term “Drug Price” Means
Check Your Understanding Quiz 4.1
Smoke and Mirrors: Why Drug List Prices Don't Reflect True Costs
Who is Supposed to Pay List Price?
Check Your Understanding Quiz 4.2
Generics and Patent Burning Parties
The Mortgage Analogy
OPTIONAL: Further Reading
Check Your Understanding Quiz 4.3
Chapter 4: Summary & Conclusion
Chapter 5 Overview
From Molecule to Generic Drug
Example 1: Lipitor
Example 2: Gleevec
Example 3: Humira
But What About Insulin?
Celebrating the End of the Mortgage
Check Your Understanding Quiz 5.1
When an Off-Patent Drug Stays Expensive
Market Forces
Price Jacking
What about Zolgensma?
Check Your Understanding Quiz 5.2
Advertising & Other Misconceptions About Drug Pricing
More DTC Ad Benefits
DTC Ads and Drug Prices
A Few Other Misconceptions
Check Your Understanding Quiz 5.3
Chapter 5: Summary & Conclusion
The Absurdity of American Insurance
Remember Zoey?
A Flawed System
Chapter 6 Overview
Premiums, Deductibles, and OOPs, oh my! (A quick glossary)
Understanding Health Insurance Costs
Check Your Understanding Quiz 6.1
Utlization Management and Related Terms
How Insurance Incentivizes Innovation
The Industry's True Customers
Check Your Understanding Quiz 6.2
Chapter 6 Summary
So What's the Problem?
Chapter 7 Overview
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Drug Pricing
Vertical Integration
When a Patient Isn’t Insured
Why Doesn’t Everyone Have Insurance?
Check Your Understanding Quiz 7.1
How We Make Insurance Better
Out-of-Pocket Reform
Universal Coverage
The Insurance Meta-Marketplace
Abuse of Prior Authorization
Consequences of Prior Authorization
Denial of Care
Playing Games with Patient Assistance
What can YOU do?
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding Quiz 7.2
Chapter 7 Summary
The Drug Pricing Maze
Chapter 8 Overview
Why Price Controls are Problematic
Drugs Going Generic IS the Built in Price Control
Things that Don’t Work
Borrowing From Other Countries
International Reference Pricing
Drug Reimportation
Seizing IP: March-in Rights
Seizing IP: TRIPS Waivers
Check Your Understanding Quiz 8.1
Things that Might Work
Lowering OOPs and the Good Parts of the IRA
Guaranteed Contracts/Forward Contracts
Getting the International Community On Board
Forward contracts for Antibiotics: The Pasteur Act
Generalized Cost Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA)
Check Your Understanding Quiz 8.2
The Best 8% of Our Healthcare Dollar
Chapter 8 Summary
[OPTIONAL] Additional Resources
The Beginning of the End: Wrapping up our course
Welcome to the Final Chapter!
Chapter 1 Recap
Chapter 2 Recap
Chapter 3 Recap
Chapter 4 Recap
Chapter 5 Recap
Chapter 6 Recap
Chapter 7 Recap
Chapter 8 Recap
Preparing for the Final Exam
Final Exam
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