bought drugs, say, in canada or whatever, and had that ould l experience or bought drugs, john pharmaceuticals, from overseas, we would love to hear your oint. experience on that. john dicken, i want to go back h to this point i think i just heard you made. password summer of your report g says, each of the four countries uses varying pricing strategiess to limit, the price of prescription drugs. however, the united states is ve the only country in our review i that does not haveng an overarching national pricing strategy for prescription drugs, although some of it is publicly funded coverage, such as medicaid, department of veterans affairs, use pricing strategies. is there a "why" behind the fact that there's not a u.s. pricing strategy? what do those strategies look like in other countries? >> yeah, so really in the u.s., as you noted, there's just a iv number of different payers for prescription drugs. we rely in large part on private health plans. they're offered through employers, through medicaid, through medicare.e and so each of those programs o have either different statutory authori

we also heard from pharmaceutical johns, including bon tag fives, the maternal johnson johnson, who will pledge 1300000000 doses for poor country, for the much cheaper rate than which they've been sold to wealthier nations also help from wealthy nations to build a covert vaccine production and development hubs in africa. we know, for example, in africa few than one percent of people have been vaccinated. there were some countries that have had no vaccine doses at all. however, nothing in terms in terms of vaccine waivers g 20 leaders actually decided that they would not waive paintings on the vaccines, nevada, as seen as something of a snub to the united states. jo biden's administration in may and he did the calls of countries like india and china in pushing for a waiver on vaccine payton's, the way to help boost production in the poor countries. but at the summit, many nations said that they were actually against not because of the because of innovation because of paint and rights. and they also said that in the short term, the actual real urgency sharing doses boosting production of d

pharmaceuticals overseas. we would love to hear your experience on that. john dicken, i want to go back this point. part of the summary of your reports is that each of the four countries use pricing strategies to limit the price of drugs, but the united states is the only country in our review that does not have the overarching pricing strategy for prescription drugs, although it is publicly funded coverage. such as medicaid. is there a why behind there is not a he u.s. pricing strategy? what do those strategies look like in other countries? guest: really in the u.s., as you know, the number of different payers, we rely in large part or in private health plans to offer through employers come through medicare, and so each of those programs have different statutory authorities for prices, for different buildings to negotiate with manufacturers. so certainly each plan has both strategies for how they are negotiating prices. but that is across different tiers. in australia and france and canada, there are national approaches that could do things like set ceiling prices. that would be the maximum amount

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. >> john: if as expected the fda approves the pfizer vaccine nor 12-16 and they get 20,000 pharmaceuticali put in my zip code and a few locations popped up. i was able to get through the process of choosing an appointment for tomorrow. so looks like that works unlike some federal programs. >> sandra: good for those folks that have had a hard time getting them. some people are still having a hard time go for it if you want it. great to be with you, john. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: i'm john roberts. we'll see you tonight for the hump day edition of the program. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, guys. breaking right now, the president set as july fourth goal to have 160 million americans vaccinated. the tone of the white house is optimistic but cautious. president biden continues in crisis mode in many ways, governor desantis lifts the last remaining covid restrictions in florida today. he said the administration's response he believes is sending the wrong message to americans. >> you have people in washington yeah, get vaccinated

pharmaceuticals overseas. we would love to hear your experience on that. john dicken, i want to go back this point.art of the summary of your reports is that each of the four countries use pricing strategies to limit the price of drugs, but the united states is the only country in our review that does not have the overarching pricing strategy for prescription drugs, although it is publicly funded coverage. such as medicaid. is there a why behind there is not a he u.s. pricing strategy? what do those strategies look like in other countries? guest: really in the u.s., as you know, the number of different payers, we rely in large part or in private health plans to offer through employers come through medicare, and so each of those programs have different statutory authorities for prices, for different buildings to negotiate with manufacturers. so certainly each plan has both strategies for how they are negotiating prices. but that is across different tiers. in australia and france and canada, there are national approaches that could do things like set ceiling prices. that would be the maximum amount t

pharmaceutical group. i trust my own mind more than i trust liberal elites. and joining me now is derek thompson, staff writer for the atlantic and dr. jennifer not-so-, elite epidemiologist johnskins coronavirus resource center. derek, let me start with you. i like the piece and i learned a lot from it. what did you learn by talking to people who are vaccine resistant? >> vaccine resistance is so complicated, you know? you're not talking to a handful of people and they're all repeating the same katika zooms. they're all different nuances that you get based on different people. they come to this and very different ways but i think the big idea here is the summary that you just put up. it's this two part summary. number one, i trust my own immune system more than i trust big pharma. and number two, that they essentially trust that they're going to be able to get through this without having to take on any pharmaceutical intervention. i think it's really important to look at the risk assessment to make here because i have taken this virus unfortunately believably seriously and so the way i want to admit in this piece i am of course rooting for these vaccines to work. in a very int