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This post sounds like a bunch of misinformed patients and not business professionals that understand WAC pricing or drug bio equivalence. Another reason why care pharma is the tmz of our industry
 






























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And you are the example why the US is ranked 47th worldwide in education and spend the most globally
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No the reason for the US low ranking is that we still have pharma reps driving the cost of health higher than any country in the world. Shameful occupation and industry!! Reason for our future national drug formulary!!!!!
 






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No the reason for the US low ranking is that we still have pharma reps driving the cost of health higher than any country in the world. Shameful occupation and industry!! Reason for our future national drug formulary!!!!!
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I agree. Let's just look at the UK and their national formulary. Try to get your choice of oncology drug. Most aren't going to be there. And if your stage 4? forget it. They will let you die. If that's what you want, go right ahead and move to UK. But you live here. Too bad for all of us you do.
 






I am sure the people that think Solvaldi cost too much would have been willing to kick in some cash if the drug did not make it to market. I am sure they would agree to a longer time of exclusivity on the market if the price was lower. Bottom line is a company needs to make money when they can. As a retired pharm employee, not Gilead, and a pharmacist I am glad to let Gilead make me some spending money. I might add a lot of spending money
 






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I am sure the people that think Solvaldi cost too much would have been willing to kick in some cash if the drug did not make it to market. I am sure they would agree to a longer time of exclusivity on the market if the price was lower. Bottom line is a company needs to make money when they can. As a retired pharm employee, not Gilead, and a pharmacist I am glad to let Gilead make me some spending money. I might add a lot of spending money
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Our Lord does not reward GREED!
 






As a poor HCV patient, I am screwed by your 1% and sleazy company - published a new story today discussing how Medicaid providers were limiting access to Sovaldi because of its price!
 






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As a poor HCV patient, I am screwed by your 1% and sleazy company - published a new story today discussing how Medicaid providers were limiting access to Sovaldi because of its price!
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Blame the medicaid providers or the FDA for limiting the time a company as product exclusivity

Blaming the company that discovered the treatment is rather short sighted and ignorant unless you want to pay the salaries of the thousands of people that were involved in bringing the drug to market

Why does a musician that writes a song get royalities or a Tv show in syndication get royalities but a drug company that developes a drug get essentially nothing when patent protection expires
 






The easy solution: Companies can cut back on R&D to lower prices, no new revolutionary drugs will be developed, people can take old drugs with toxic side effects and low cure rates. Case solved. I'm a genius.
 






It depends on society's priorities...for the price of an Gerald Ford Class aircraft carrier that costs billions to operate and that will be obsolete in 25 years, you could virtually eliminate Hep C in every man, woman and child in the US. And in the end you would be saving the state and federal government billions by eliminating the consequences of Hep C - namely hepatic cancer and the need for the associated liver transplants and lifetimes of anti rejection therapy, not to mention pain, suffering and lost productivity. In addition, this expenditure would prevent new citizens from becoming infected with Hep C, providing further cost savings to society. Its a slam dunk case -Sovaldi is worth every penny.
 






So screw Americans with HCV but help out Egyptians! Gilead offers Egypt new hepatitis C drug at 99 pct discount. I am writing my congressman and I am a proud Viet Nam vet!
 






Write your congressman and urge him to allow the VA to cover it. Your service should entitle you to get it at no or little cost. You should be virus free in 12 weeks - a true miracle. Good luck to you and thank you for your service.
 






My doctor told me the VA will not cover the expense of your drug! Write my congressman, yeah, to vote for national health insurance and strict regulations on pricing from your criminal industry! When your CEO became a BILLIONAIRE on the backs of sick people it is time for a major change in healthcare in the USA!
 






If it makes you feel any better, the VA will cover it once they review it and the VA is mandated by law to get the lowest contracted price available. It represents a breakthrough advance in hep c therapy. Tell your congressman to urge the VA to add it to national formulary without delay. Believe me, the VA won't be paying anything near the "retail price" that you are reading about.
 






My VA nurse said that Doc is waiting for additional drugs to come to market in order to prescribe lowest cost therapy for me! So Mr. PR Man go back to your luxury office building!
 












"IF" Gilead Execs meet with a congressional committee it will be because they. "Choose" to do so and not because they are forced. Read the article dipstick. Congressional committee asks for a response. . . Not the same as a forced hearing. Congress/Gov't/FDA have ZERO say on drug pricing.
 






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