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Originally Posted by jyl
It costs about $70K/year to be on Gleevec, but not for much longer, as the drug is going generic soon.
Suppose a company develops a one-time "cure" for a particular cancer that is otherwise a rapid death sentence - instead of taking a drug for years, you get one course of treatment and then go on to live a normal life - what would the economics of that be? Pretty powerful. The cost of that treatment would be huge and probably charged on a sliding scale - far more for a young person, less for an elderly person, scaled to the decades of life that the treatment would save. After all, there are already drugs that cost $250K/yr today. I think we'd see the first million-dollar drug.
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Good grief, who the hell can afford to be on those drugs besides the 1%? I understand, but wow.
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