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Re:$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So... by SilasX on Monday August 04, 2014 @03:48AM (#8130737)
What I meant was, the cost, including amortization of fixed costs, is still legitimately high (and thus would be expensive for very different reasons from the typical "health care WTF" -- and most health care spending isn't in the form of pharmaceuticals). And expecting high-fixed-cost goods to be priced based on the marginal unit ... is the wrong heuristic to begin with.
Re:$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So... by makomk on Monday August 04, 2014 @04:27AM (#8130803)
Not sure it's legitimately that high - 3.2 million patients in the US alone times $84,000 per patient gives you a lot of amortization of fixed costs.