In the past 20 years, US drug increases have left many sick people without medicine, and patients are dying. Large pharmaceutical companies are being held responsible. “Wall Street has recognised that they can make a killing, and they’re literally sometimes making a killing”, claims Dr Vikas Saini. Despite Trump’s election promise to reduce prescription drug costs by 2016, drug costs remain sky-high. Millions are embracing medical tourism. Antroinette Worsham is shocked when she learns that she can purchase her daughter’s insulin for a quarter of the price in Canada. She blames “pharmaceutical greed” in America for the death of her eldest daughter. Others are turning to the black market. Elmer Massey bought a 12-week-treatment for Hepatitis C via a Facebook group. “I’m doing it on blind faith", he says. The industry insists that high prices are necessary to pay for the pharmaceutical innovation that will lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s, but critics say that the price is being paid for in lives.