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S1 Ep10: Financing the war on cancer
Season 1 · Episode 10

S1 Ep10: Financing the war on cancer

VoxTalks Economics

August 17, 201811m 12s

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Show Notes

New drugs mean that many types of cancer are no longer a death sentence. But new medical treatments may have a catastrophic financial cost for patients. Tim Phillips talks to Ralph Koijen about how life insurance, not medical insurance, might finance the war on cancer.

Read more about this, and other groundbreaking research, at VoxEU.org.