I think it is important that people get it at a price they can afford it, but Americans should get it at a price they can afford as well.
Gilead is making this drug available to countries like Egypt, which have very, very serious problems with Hepatitis C.
Therefore, if we can get cost-effective treatment to people with Hepatitis C and prevent these very, very costly procedures, in the end VA, ...
It is a moral issue--how many people in this country will suffer, and how many will die very painful deaths because they can not access the ...
I am just trying to get an overview here.
that is unacceptable, particularly in the circumstances where we are talking about a life-saving drug and the rationing is entirely avoidabl...
I am a strong supporter of VA and would like to put more money into the system, but there is a limit to what can be done.
Senator Burr raised some really interesting questions that I hope we will explore later on.
If we choose to address that monopoly through government policy, since we, the people, gave the monopoly in the first place, we can bring th...
the nature of a patent monopoly is the monopoly seller chooses the price.
it is a certainty that it will continue in a worse way with this level of pricing.
What is the moral implication of it? Are we comfortable as a nation with a product being available which can save human lives, but either in...
We could do that in one way, which would be to say, we are just going to give Gilead as much money as we anticipate the company will make by...
you have a monopoly situation where the person who has a pill that is desperately needed... can charge anything they want for it?
The truth is, this hearing could be held in any number of committees, because it goes well beyond Sovaldi...
Medical tourism has actually been a phenomenon for a while, but this is an extreme situation.
the current system is not just leading to immoral outcomes, it is ineffective at incentivizing R&D
What we are looking at is very clearly a very, very excessive profit and a lot of that profit is going to be paid for by the taxpayers of th...
