Gilead Set to Make Out Big AGAIN---This Time with $1000 a Day Pill for Hepatitis C

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1. As someone who was cured by this drug

I find it hard to bitch too much about the cost. I was treated twice before this drug came along, both treatments failed and both treatments cost about as much as this treatment and of course included devastating side affects completely absent in this drug. I agree the cost is outrageous but to someone like me who had hep c for 30+ years the cost is irrelevant.

The cost of this drug is far less the cost of the alternative, a liver transplant and life long care as a result of the transplant. Insurance companies will jump at this.

Is our country fucked up when when it comes to healthcare? Absolutely but this drug and those like it are going to save many thousands of lives.