From my Hepmag post:
We are suffering an injustice at the hands of Gilead and, by extension, our government.
The US was founded on the principle of equal justice. Gilead is basically a hedge fund. They snapped up the company that developed sofosbuvir because they saw the profit potential. See below:
The cognoscenti were there to hear Gane. An unshowy, respected doctor, he had been working on hepatitis C since the early 1990s, and for the past year, had been carrying out a clinical trial of a particularly promising new drug developed by a small American pharmaceutical company called Pharmasset. The drug was known by its laboratory name, “PSI-7977”, and today, Gane was to give an update on the trial, called ELECTRON.
Sofosbuvir, for all intents and purposes. Gilead bought them out for $11 billion. Check their latest earning reports....
Well, that is fine, because, it too, is the American way-at least until they start telling people "We will sell you your life for your life savings."
The Founders broke a few English laws to start this great country.
We owe it to them and ourselves to bend a few today in the name of fairness and justice for all. This should not be a rich person's cure.
Globalization has set the price for a 12 week treatment of pure generic harvoni at just less than $2000.
Buyer beware.
Buyer be informed.
Buyer get well.
Mike
