That's sad and scary. On the pharma career end of things that he discusses, there has to be some compromise between outsourcing all of the jobs b/c it costs too much to develop drugs in the U.S. and the $400 prescription anti-nausea medication we got for dd10 b/c she gets so severely motion sick that we couldn't get her to summer camp an hour away w/out her vomiting (OTC meds do nothing for it).
Drugs cost too much for many of us to afford (thank goodness we have insurance that covers a good chunk of some of them!) yet pharm cos tell us that w/out that cost they cannot develop new drugs. Thinking out loud here... what about govt funded drug development and reasonably priced drugs that U.S. citizens can afford?
