[steve50]

Now we know why the African Aids problem is getting $15 billion of taxpayers money thrown at it.

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[Doctor Stochastic]

Other drugs (synthyroid, for example) have also gone up in price the last few years. The non-PCS prices for the (drugs I started 20 years ago) have increased substantially, just faster than college tuition.

[Ken522]

Price of AIDS drug soars fivefold

Now who's to blame for this?? Let's see - the drug company should be wholly responsible because the company is making OBSCENE profits ... never mind that without the drug companies, there would be no drugs to complain about and the AIDS carriers would just have to suffer in silence. Sheeze!

[thoughtomator]

Wow... for that $665 every month - the OLD price - you could insure someone who is uninsured for a year. There's not a country on the planet that can afford to pay this much for AIDS symptom management.

[Steve_Seattle]

"A daily dose of 12 pills used to cost about $20, Cassidy said. Now, even with the higher cost per pill, a typical daily dose of one pill costs about $8.50, and a daily dose of two pills about $17. "It's well below what most protease inhibitors are priced at; it's the lowest-priced protease inhibitor, even with the price increase."

Ok, so buried deep in the article, the truth comes out: because of the way the drug is now administered, the daily dose has gone down from 12 pills to one or two, and a typical patient is now paying $3-12 LESS per day for the drug than before, despite the price increase.

[nightdriver]

The drug companies have said that since the government was thinking about passing a drug entitlement bill, the price would double. They also promised that if the bill ever passed (which it did) the price would at least double again, so there's the reason.

The problem is the government, not the drug companies. We all now have to compete with the government now that it is a quasi-consumer now.

[nightdriver]

The drug companies have said that since the government was thinking about passing a drug entitlement bill, the price would double. They also promised that if the bill ever passed (which it did) the price would at least double again, so there's the reason.

The problem is the government, not the drug companies. We all have to compete with the government now that it is a quasi-consumer.

[Porterville]

It would break my heart to have a five fold increase in something as critical as pharmaceuticals.... it is pretty unethical, if the drug companies want to make a good name for themselves and keep people from finding alternative sources across the border or knockoff drugs in Brazil, they are certainly going about it the wrong way.

[camas]

i wonder if this will slow down the "bug chasers"????

[Atlas Sneezed]

How has the price of condoms changed during the period these guys infected themselves?