$1,000 Pill For Hepatitis C Spurs Debate Over Drug Prices

[Type Username Here]

Could be? Sure, but they aren't at the moment, and right now these lives are being saved in no small part by the profit motive... and we still don't know what the profit margin looks like.

You're smart enough to know they cook the books anyway. Yes, could be. What I mean by that is that stories like these should serve as a reminder where we need to go as a species.

Less money on the NSA, Bombs, and DoD, and more money in funding, creating and distributing healthcare/medicine, ok?

 

[DEAD7]

Less money on the NSA, Bombs, and DoD, and more money in funding, creating and distributing healthcare/medicine, ok?

This I agree with 100%, though i'm sure the extent of spending on each is far less than you have in mind lol.

 

[88m3]

something needs to spur a debate and change, it's unsustainable.

 

[DANKTHRONE]

Normally @DEAD7 is just 100% wrong (no offense) but he is probably right to some degree here. US taxpayers foot some of the bill for the R&D costs that allow other countries to implement price controls. Should poor Americans subsidize meds for wealthy Canadians? Probably not.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Normally @DEAD7 is just 100% wrong (no offense) but he is probably right to some degree here. US taxpayers foot some of the bill for the R&D costs that allow other countries to implement price controls. Should poor Americans subsidize meds for wealthy Canadians? Probably not.

Eh... He's funny cause he throws around the word "liberal" a lot like it has meaning outside of "some nameless faceless group of people that I don't agree with", but he usually makes pretty good points, even if you (I, we?) don't necessarily agree with him.

 

[MidwestD]

I know all you're going to hear is "Marxist Socialist Government-lover blah blah blah" but we could start by looking at how other countries deal with this issue. For example Canada has something called a "Patented Medicine Price Review Board" to make sure that the prices of prescription medication don't get too ridiculous. In fact, IIRC there's a law that says that the price of a breakthrough med can't exceed the median worldwide price.

In fact I'm pretty sure most industrialized countries enact price controls for pharmaceuticals. But I'm sure that's just because they're all Marxists who want to steal people's freedom.

had to give pos rep on this one

 

[ORDER_66]

$1000 a pill! is that why these pharmaceutical companies was fighting these generic brands because theyre eating into their profits??? Im all for generic half the price shyt if it can do everything the original does. who gives a shyt! aint no one in they're right mind paying $1,000 PER PILL!!!!! PER PILL!!!

WHAT THE fukk OF ALL THE RIDICULOUS shyt IVE EVER HEARD...

 

[tmonster]

it's ok the free market will save us

 

[duck]

What do u expect from a country that will charge $100 for a bag of saline (fukkin salt water)

 

[MidwestD]

$1000 a pill! is that why these pharmaceutical companies was fighting these generic brands because theyre eating into their profits??? Im all for generic half the price shyt if it can do everything the original does. who gives a shyt! aint no one in they're right mind paying $1,000 PER PILL!!!!! PER PILL!!!

WHAT THE fukk OF ALL THE RIDICULOUS shyt IVE EVER HEARD...

i feel the anger

what would make me happy is if a couple thousand angry people loudly protested in front of this companies facilities

 

[Type Username Here]

What do u expect from a country that will charge $100 for a bag of saline (fukkin salt water)

Try $700 in some cases:

http://www.advisory.com/daily-brief...cret-of-salines-cost-why-a-1-bag-can-cost-700

 

[duck]

Try $700 in some cases:

http://www.advisory.com/daily-brief...cret-of-salines-cost-why-a-1-bag-can-cost-700

What da fukk. shyts insane. How can this be legal?

I hope everyone involved in this evil scam rots in hell one day. When they at the pearly gates one day, and get asked why they robbed poor desperate people, what they gunna say?

 

[Cabbage Patch]

R&D ain't free brehs.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

If i had Hep C i'd do a heist to "liberate" some pills for myself and others....mostly especially for myself. fukk they gon do send me to prison? That's cool i'd go do a bid with no Hep C and my liver now safe.

Hell i might even drop a few pills off at competing labs too, so they can reverse engineer and get that generic out on the market asap.

 

[superunknown23]

Eh... He's funny cause he throws around the word "liberal" a lot like it has meaning outside of "some nameless faceless group of people that I don't agree with", but he usually makes pretty good points, even if you (I, we?) don't necessarily agree with him.

I'm always amazed that you guys actually try to debate with him