Re:$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So...
by fewy on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:20PM
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The West Wing had a good quote on this:
TOBY
The pills cost 'em four cents a unit to make.
JOSH
You know that's not true. The second pill cost 'em four cents; the first pill cost 'em
four hundred million dollars.
If you want to step up and by the first pill I'm sure they won't have a problem bringing down the costs. It cost them 11 billion to buy the company which did the R&D for this drug.
TOBY The pills cost 'em four cents a unit to make.
JOSH You know that's not true. The second pill cost 'em four cents; the first pill cost 'em four hundred million dollars.
If you want to step up and by the first pill I'm sure they won't have a problem bringing down the costs. It cost them 11 billion to buy the company which did the R&D for this drug.