THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS BROKENFrom the American hedge fund manager who drastically hiked
the price of an AIDS pill to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a
Spanish warehouse the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system built to drive
innovation and improve patient care has been distorted to maximise profits.In Sick Money the
investigative journalist who exposed a billion-pound British price-hiking scandal goes inside
the global battle over high drug prices. From secret deals to patients forced to turn to the
black market Billy Kenber reveals how medicines have become nothing more than financial
assets. He offers a diagnosis of an industry in crisis - and a prescription for how it could be
fixed.
