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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by refurb on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:15PM (#11657189)
If Gilead charged $1500 in every country it wouldn't have been worth to invest in the first place.

Remember they paid $11B for the right to the drug and they still had to bring it through development.

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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by mattdw on Monday May 09, 2016 @02:55AM (#11658030)
Surely the right to the drug was only worth $11B in the first place because of $84k possibilities at the other end? If it was only ever going to be $1500, that $11B would have been adjusted accordingly.
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