What it costs to make vs what they charge at the pharmacy are two very, very different numbers.
Governments can set the price like they did with insulin, or just nationalize production and sell it themselves.
Yeah, but then you have packaging costs, and distribution costs, and marketing costs, and shareholder dividends, and CEO bonuses, and AI integration, and lobbying costs…
So really, we’re practically losing money at a $450/month subscription.
$450/mo. would be a bargain. They’ll be squeezing them for hundreds of thousands a year.
Syphilis brought on Victorianism and centuries of sexual and societal repression. Antibiotics and birth control then led to the more liberal politics we saw in the 1960s and 70s. Likewise I’m convinced that AIDS had been a major contributor to the resurgence in conservativism in the last 40 years or so. My hope is that an end to HIV will help swing the pendulum back in the other direction.
Antibiotic resistant gonnohrea has entered the chat.
oh gods I hope not. gonnohrraea is… scary stuff, especially late stage
NEVER look up what that looks like (or any late stage STD/STI for that matter…I only know due to my school district’s… interesting stance on sex education.)
I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Drug companies chased this for decades. They’ll capitalize on that fact to “justify” ridiculous markup. They won’t do anything out of the kindness of their hearts. It’d be nice to live in a world where people and corporations did what was best for humanity. That’s not the world we occupy.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up
The trick is in asking who owns the patent. I suspect you’re going to see a bunch of Chinese/Indian generics that cost pennies on the US dollar, because they see an economic benefit in people not having HIV that Americans can’t grasp.
American corporations can grasp the benefit. They just don’t care.
In countries other than the US though…
Don’t worry, the research was funded by taxpayers (most probably, or at least in part).
The market price will be too.
The thing in between however …
And will be made for as cheap as possible and sold for a magnitude more.
