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The other ninety-six point seven percent went to everything else.", "context": "Highlighting the extreme disparity between actual treatment testing and all other budget uses.", "char_start": 341, "char_end": 466, "start_ms": 24640, "end_ms": 33440, "duration_ms": 8800, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 5, "title": "Safe Compound Defensible", "narration_text": "\n\nThat might be defensible if we'd already tested all the known safe compounds that are piled up waiting for human testing.", "context": "Explaining that the spending might be justified only if there weren't already waiting compounds.", "char_start": 466, "char_end": 589, "start_ms": 33160, "end_ms": 42320, "duration_ms": 9160, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 6, "title": "9,500 Safe Profiles", "narration_text": " We haven't.\n\nThere are roughly nine thousand five hundred compounds with established safety profiles, and ninety-nine point", "context": "Revealing the huge number of safe compounds that exist but remain largely ignored for clinical use.", "char_start": 589, "char_end": 713, "start_ms": 42000, "end_ms": 51740, "duration_ms": 9740, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 7, "title": "Overflowing Pipeline", "narration_text": " seven percent of their possible disease applications have never been tested.\n\nThe pipeline is overflowing with candidates.", "context": "Emphasizing that nearly all potential disease uses for existing safe drugs are untested.", "char_start": 713, "char_end": 834, "start_ms": 51440, "end_ms": 59740, "duration_ms": 8300, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 8, "title": "The Trial Bottleneck", "narration_text": " The bottleneck is trials.\n\nIt's like spending ninety-six point seven percent of your grocery budget on cookbooks and", "context": "Identifying clinical trials as the core problem and starting a household budget analogy.", "char_start": 834, "char_end": 951, "start_ms": 59640, "end_ms": 68320, "duration_ms": 8680, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 9, "title": "Cookbook vs Food", "narration_text": " three point three percent on food, then wondering why you're starving.\n\nThis isn't just inefficiency. 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"narration_text": " It's lobbied outcome.\n\nDrug companies love the N.I.H. 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PhRMA, the pharmaceutical lobby, has consistently opposed comparative effectiveness research.", "context": "Identifying the PhRMA lobby's active role in preventing research that threatens their drug prices.", "char_start": 3845, "char_end": 3967, "start_ms": 264620, "end_ms": 272720, "duration_ms": 8100, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 33, "title": "PCORI and Lobbying", "narration_text": "When Congress created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, in twenty ten, industry successfully lobbied to prohibit it", "context": "The narrator explains how industry interests influenced the creation and scope of PCORI.", "char_start": 7930, "char_end": 8071, "start_ms": 543400, "end_ms": 554820, "duration_ms": 11420, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 34, "title": "Laws Against Savings", "narration_text": " from making coverage recommendations based on cost-effectiveness. Congress literally passed a law saying \"don't fund research that might lower drug prices.\"", "context": "Legislative restrictions were put in place to ensure drug prices wouldn't be threatened by new research.", "char_start": 8071, "char_end": 8227, "start_ms": 554900, "end_ms": 565720, "duration_ms": 10820, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 35, "title": "The Revolving Door", "narration_text": " They wrote it down. In legislation. On purpose. The revolving door helps. 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