Sheesh. I was feeling bad because my wife needs some osteoporosis medication with a copay of 750/month for 15 months. Obviously, it could be a lot worse.
Frank On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:18 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Glen writes: > > "I suppose my point is that these numbers, $60k, $51k, $90k seem wrong to > me in some ... ethical? ... sense. " > > If we assume that more and more people will have cancer because people > will live longer, and other diseases will have good treatments, then > basically we're talking about billions of people around the world that may > benefit from these treatments, and say 50-100 million in the US in a few > decades? There will be other diseases that benefit from high-priced > treatments too, but just the big C by itself could break the bank. It > doesn't matter if everyone is paying into insurance (directly or > indirectly) because the costs won't be sustainable. It seems the pricing > is aggressive, in the hopes that some insurer will agree to it, but often > it seems the drug company will agree to a smaller amount. > > Would be nice to see open source competitors emerge, as the technology > emerges to make that affordable. > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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