Sounds like pure opportunity costing.
That pill will probably be available over-the-counter in some country overseas.
Better yet - just sign an executive order banning hepatitis C!
Saved my friend’s life...
Nothing else worked....
Dr Camilla Graham of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston thinks that the high cost of the new hepatitis C treatments might be justified."Maybe we decide that $100,000 is a worthwhile investment to cure someone of an otherwise devastating chronic infection," Graham says. After all, it can now cost up to $300,000 to treat patients with advanced hepatitis C, using less effective and more harrowing regimens.
Graham is a hep-C specialist. So she knows firsthand how the slow-moving virus kills patients by destroying their livers and causing liver cancer. The virus is the main reason that nearly 17,000 Americans are waiting for a liver transplant.
Source: npr.org
How about waiting for India to make their own pirated version, subsequently importing it via the internet?
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At least THAT part of PelosiReidcare is working...
That’s crazy.
The real problem is that the courts will rule that it is "cruel and unusual punishment" if the taxpayers don't provide this treatment to all the druggies in prison who have Hep C.
That’s $90,000 for the “rich” Americans. If you’re an Egyptian you only pay about $900.
I was diagnosed with Hep c back in 2001. I got into an experimental program using pegalated interferon and ribavarin. A month before I started on the regimen I ordered some medicinal mushroom capsules and started taking them. My blood tests showed that my viral load had dropped by 50% and when I told my doctor what I had been doing he really didn’t want to hear it. I went on the program and I’ve never been sicker in my life but I have no Hep C today.
Cured my brother of HepC.
I knew of a Chinese guy with Hepatitis C. His mother a true Tiger Mom was always disappointed that he didn’t have Hepatitis A+