[PA Engineer]

When people in the U.S. pay $84,000 for the drug, they are helping to pay for the very high cost of the research and development that went into inventing it. By comparison, when people in Egypt pay only $900, they are only paying for the cost of manufacturing it.

Because of the FDA, regulation, litigation and a host of other government interference, it now costs close to one billion to bring a drug to market. This is from a reliable source within TEVA. If we went to the UL model for the drug development process we could bring down the cost of new innovation dramatically.

When I set my coffee maker timer before bed, I am pretty confident my house won't burn down during the night. I would not be so confident if the FDA approved the coffee maker. First I would have to finance the purchase and then hope that it actually brews a cup of coffee. Second, I would have no recourse when my house burned down.

[BobL]

If they stopped DOING DRUGS they wouldn’t have to worry about this disease, or its cost.

[eyedigress]

Apparently, these people at Democratic Underground would prefer that this new drug had simply never been invented.

The children at the DU do not have the ability to reason. They say if it exists, it should be free. Just ask one why communist Russia or China didn't invent it already and watch their head explode.