Priced Out: In Conversation with Dr. Jerry Avorn
- Oct 15, 2025
- 1 min read
With Mina Tadrous | I’m Pharmacy Podcast
This episode of the University of Toronto's I'm Pharmacy podcast opens with a striking image: a bus full of Americans crossing the border into Canada with Senator Bernie Sanders — not for sightseeing, but to buy insulin. The image frames the episode's central question: how did the United States end up with the most expensive prescription drug prices in the world, and what does that mean for the tens of millions of Americans who, unlike that busload, cannot simply cross a border to escape the system they live with every day?
Host and guest Dr. Jerry Avorn, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and author of Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take, discuss the structural and policy forces that have produced American drug prices dramatically higher than those paid in other wealthy countries. The episode is produced by the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, offering a Canadian pharmacy-education perspective on the US drug pricing crisis.