america is so fucking based man
in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.
Explain to me how this drug costs that much to manufacture
I assume it doesn’t, and that includes R&D cost that can’t be spread across a large number of other doses.
Zolgemsma is a modified version of adeno associated virus and has to be grown under specific conditions. It costs $500k-$1m per production.
While a healthy portion is, ugh, profit margin
Often with these rare diseases, if there’s a cure or treatment for it often they require bespoke drugs. Sometimes with specialty equipment designed and built just for that drug (or drug family). Ofc with rare diseases, they probably only make like 5/year or some shit so they never scale well. In some cases (like if there’s a short shelf life), they even make the drug on an as needed basis, further increasing cost
One of these specialty 2 mil dollar drug might still cost an actual 1 mil to make taking out profit margin/R&D recovery costs.
Except the r&d was funded by the government. I highly doubt that they’re paying back those funds (though they definitely should), so, as usual, that excuse won’t fly.
No one has given you an actual reply just assuming that the manufacturing costs for the drug are low. Zolgemsma is a modified version of adeno associated virus and has to be grown under specific conditions. It costs $500k-$1m per production.
It doesn’t cost that much to manufacture. The costs usually come from the time and people to research and develop this drug over years of trials playa…