What does this mean Emilio? Impossible to receive by mail?

The figure they brandish about re NHS cost, is apparently higher than the price the NHS will actually pay.
To save the face of the fact NHS England are lagging embarrassingly behind Scotland in offering new treatments.
Anyway, for many, they would only offer 8 weeks treatment (GT1s) – So right away, that reduces that cost to £26,000
Am told by good authority it is less in reality and keeps patients & public thinking we can’t afford when many other illnesses benefit from an equal expense. It also puts it above the £30,000 bracket for NICE – Conveniently!
But anyway, how could the drug cos stop mail deliveries without changing the law?
The whole thing disgusts me, with people so unwell

I see Alsdad – What a disgusting thing, Stopping sick people getting medicines they need.
I will leave it at that.

Enough profit already! Go cure something else and gift this to mankind – fck!

Gilead don’t even have to ‘gift’ these new meds to mankind: They just need to reduce their marquee prices to a level that healthcare providers can provide them to everyone that needs them. And Gilead would still make huge profits from them.

Gilead bought the company that R & D’d Sofosbuvir ‘off the shelf’, and has already more than doubled their money in the form of sales revenue. Harvoni is a combination of two existing HCV antivirals, which required minimal R & D (mainly trials). Last quarterly sales on Harvoni were over five billion US Dollars. There is little marketing required for these products: They sell themselves. And the revenue from them is mostly profit.

It’s clear that Gilead won’t struggle to fund future research. It’s hard to argue for the necessity for Gilead to maintain profit levels unless you are pro-corporate greed.

On the other hand, the argument for ridding the World of this huge epidemic is utterly compelling.

Of course its pure greed all corporations are obligated to make money for their shareholders its why
they are in business.

The huge profits on these and other drugs is getting the attention it deserves I think we may
seem some Govt intervention sooner rather then later.

In simple costs terms; It would make more sense to treat everyone even at the outrageous prices
Gilead charge, the actual cost to not treating with all the associated health costs is probably more
then taking the once off hit.

The NHS is also restricting access to Cancer drugs with similar price points not that’s any justification.

The answer is to legislate and bring prices down.

In the US, access to health was never considered a right as such, you either had private insurance or Medicaid/
Medicare , the former is for the poor the latter those retired, the system its self is driven by profit your health is
a after thought.

Personally, I think its immoral what we think does not matter to these guys.

The generics are available there is no putting the lid back on….its an impossible task to stop shipping.