Except in the United States, where it will be $1500 a dose.
But don’t worry! If you’re fortunate enough to have a job at a good company that pays well, then you can spend $300-$500 of your monthly paycheck to have an insurance company possibly cover up to 80% of the cost! Assuming you are in-network, picked the right plan, followed all the confusing steps to file a claim, and aren’t disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies.
Land of the free babay!
Only 1500?
Well that’ll never happen - not when the drug companies can sell $2000 a month or die medication to the inflicted for the rest of their lives.
They have to recoup their costs somehow. Their licence will expire after a while and other companies and make the product and therefore brigdown the price.
Infinite breeding here I cum!
Can we hurry up with this please. I want to cum buckets in my femboy slut. OK, thx, bye.
Obama is welcome to join too
It costs you significantly leas than 25 bucks to not write shit like that
I came here to write about fucking monkeys
Just wanted you to know 🙂
Let the debaucherous degenerate have their fun. Not like they’re hurting anyone, unlike the profligates known as the Mormons.
Let people be horny, it’s the only thing keeping the corpo shitheads out of this place.
Hm, never thought about it from this perspective. In this case, penis then. Balls even.
It costs significantly less to have a sense of humour.
Im okay with it.
But it won’t be
It’ll cost $25 to produce. Selling cost is another matter entirely.
Oh, it will be, but they’ll mark it up 100,000%
Then it won’t be 25 dollars.
Nobody was saying it would be. The headline and article are about production costs at different scales, not prices for anyone buying it after that.Hill had calculated a generic price of $40 annually last year, but said the interest from generic manufacturers had warranted new analysis. This showed lenacapavir could be mass produced for $35 to $46 a year, if there was annual demand for 2m doses, falling to $25 at scaled up production of 5m to 10m doses each year.
Oh wait, I missed a line where the article actually suggests this…
Dr Hill’s research indicates that this gamechanging innovation could – within a year of launch – be produced and sold for just $25 per person per year.
But you’re right, they won’t sell it for $0 of profit. It would be nice.
No they’ll sell it for 50x what an annual treatment regimen costs. That way they can grind down the desperate and still profit off the rich.
Pharma C-suite:
that doesn’t sound very profitable
I fucking wish I was kidding
“But how does this expand shareholder value”
I mean, it doesn’t actually end it, to have to keep taking their pill. It’s a subscription model to life.
Pill
You could read the article before you comment lol
You caught me!
i understand that if it costs $25 to make it then it needs to cost a bit more for supply chain, profits etc (regularly a 50% increase from factory and another 50% increase to retail), but i’ll bet you a $500 bottle of HIV-ending drugs that this wont cost $56.25.
That $25 estimate included a 30% profit margin already.
$500 a bottle would be practically giving it away in the US. Most life sustaining meds or the rare cure are sold at unfathomable prices. One of my post-transplant anti rejection meds is $60,000 a month
Let’s call it $100 per head.
Hey Elon, you wanna leave behind a legacy that doesn’t suck?
Here’s your last chance, asshole.
naming your company fucking “Gilead” is some torment nexus-ass shit
the company has been around for a long time, before the book was made famous, one of the first things i saw when applying to lab/biotech was gilead position for scientists. this was already 10 years ago.
they even have transportaiton buses from our city to thier campuses, because its quite far away from a city if you work in biotech.
yeah, I did check dates after, my irony circuits were just too fried when I first read it >.>
Yeah, I grimaced at the name and implications.
They are probably referencing the balm.
It looks like that’s indeed the case, and they’ve been around long enough that Handmaid’s probably wasn’t that well-known at the time. Still, the irony is off the charts… have they considered changing their logo to the traditional four-armed rotationally-symmetric sacred Buddhist symbol? >.>
No they’re going with a sonnenrad.
They considered, but there were too many other contenders.
At $25-$50/yr with low to no risk of getting HIV I would get the shot. Just like a flu or COVID shot.
Twice yearly shot? Yup, sign me up.
As a medical provider, I’ll probably be required to get it.
If this shot were to become common in the gay community, would that just leave the IV drug community to be the main transmitter of HIV? Could we potentially see HIV effectively eradicated?
It’s disgusting that drug companies prioritise massive profits over human suffering
They could still profit, just not the truly obscene profits they make, going into the pockets of people who are already rich
Billionaire: But you are wrong. I want them both. Massive profits AND human suffering.
This take generally comes from looking at the profits of successful drug X, while being unaware of (or ignoring) all of the drugs that have millions upon millions put into their R&D, that never result in anything that can go to market.
Overall profits will seem much higher than they actually are if you leave out that very-relevant data.
All that research leans so fucking heavily on public universities
Drug companies dont spend money on r&d anymore.
I worked in health care
I’m familiar
I’ve heard all the arguments, and I know how much money is poured into drugs that don’t go anywhere
I also know how their shareholders and executives fare, and I stand behind my statement
Hasn’t it been proven time and time again most money in big pharma is pumped into advertising?
That wouldn’t surprise me,
Having said that, it’s not common for pharmaceutical ads to be legal
It’s classically 'Murican
A few other countries allow drug advertising, but not many
A lot of that R&D comes from grants and universities as well as tax incentives and write offs.
Gilead
Oh, so it’s assured they will bleed people dry then, based on this company’s track record.
This is the drug I’m super hyped about. Even if it was $35, it would be life-changing for millions of people.
Shit, let’s make it $100 per year so they can make lots of money.
you’re thinking too small
1000$/year baybeee!
or rather, they’ll find the perfect balance of profitability, between how many people can afford it VS how much they’d pay for it
the poors will die but that is a sacrifice they are enthusiastic to make
