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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by clavalle on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:51PM (#21887544)
If everyone in the United States with Hepatitis C was treated at a cost of $50K it would be $150 billion dollars.

That's over 8 times what Viagra pulled in over the past 20 years.

I'm not sure where the line between reasonable profit-taking and extortion lies, but it's probably somewhere south of the GDP of Kuwait.

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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by refurb on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:57PM (#21887909)
$150B would be the same as the lifetime sales of Lipitor, which was not even a cure.[1]

[1] https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/investing/T027-S001-the-...

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