#Medicijnen sometimes get two, or even ten times more expensive. And that's how healthcare is threatening to become priceless in the wealthy west.

Big Pharma holds the pricing of new drugs firmly. Production costs are secret, and all attempts by academic hospitals and pharmacists to make drugs cheaper are successfully stopped by the industry.

VPRO Tegenlicht follows five professionals who no longer accept this and take action from their personal involvement and experiment with new models.
The judge can do something about that, it turned out recently. A special step, according to patent law expert Ellen't Hoen. The lawyer has been fighting for affordable medicine for over thirty years, arguing that the government could do much more.

These passionate pioneers want to make drugs available and affordable to all, and show that this is possible.

Drugs suddenly get more expensive.