A new drug is helping families who’ve spent years padlocking fridges, chaining garbage cans, and hiding food as their children with Prader-Willi syndrome deal with unrelenting hunger. But additional progress — and a broader understanding of obesity — is now under threat as the government dismantles the pipeline for promising new research.
Still, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.
What uh, the fuck‽
Hey!
Hey assholes!
What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that’s been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?
I fucking hate it. I’m glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.
At least the ACA’s preexisting conditions thing hasn’t been rolled back.
What uh, the fuck‽
Hey!
Hey assholes!
What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that’s been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?
I fucking hate it. I’m glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.
At least the ACA’s preexisting conditions thing hasn’t been rolled back.