A one month supply of insulin cost $20 in 1996 — now it's roughly $300 a vial. That's just one of the drugs that's seen skyrocketing prices in the U.S.
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00:00Think how many had died because of this.
00:17I could have lost my son because of insurance and because of pharmaceuticals, because of
00:22greed.
00:23I think how can you sleep at night knowing that kids can't afford insulin?
00:29How is that possible?
00:48That's a huge amount of money out of our family's budget.
00:52That's about the equivalent of half of our rent, three car payments.
00:57That is just something that's astronomical and puts a big hole in our family's budget.
01:27Like a Ponzi scheme, it appears that Turing may be using revenues from Diaprim to research
01:46and identify the next drug it will acquire and then impose similarly massive price increases
01:54on future victims.
01:57It's not funny, Mr. Torelli.
01:59People are dying and they're getting sicker and sicker.
02:27It's not funny, Mr. Torelli.