“Pricing for Paxlovid is based on the value it provides to patients, providers and health care systems," the drugmaker said.

Nearly $100 per pill

Edit: nearly $50 per pill, thought a course was 15 pills instead of 30. Still outrageous.

    • Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee
      111·
      1 year ago

      I think them and Moderna turned the money down because they’d have to share the patent with the government. Trump offered them money, they didn’t take it.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      Putting reasonable price caps on critical medications would work nicely as well. I am not sure putting full control of all medications in the hands of politicians would work out too well either.

  • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    My life saving benlysta is something like $3k/mo before insurance, $1k/mo after, but luckily I get it basically free… For now.

    Drug pricing is crazy. They want to recoup their r&d, but almost nobody even pays the full cost. Why not just charge something reasonable…

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      They just want to line their pockets. At lot of this stuff they don’t even pay the research on, or did so long ago (like insulin) that they recouped the cost many times over.

  • weksa@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 year ago

    “Pricing for Paxlovid is based on the value it provides to patients, providers and health care systems DEEZNUTS," the drugmaker said.

  • Occamsrazer@lemdro.idEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Glad we can finally get back to hating big pharma. They are a bunch of greedy opportunists, and always were.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Honestly this is a really good thing. Imagine how much money this will bring into the economy. You can choose to die from covid, or take out a predatory healthcare loan for this drug. Most people will choose to go into massive debt just to stay alive, and the economy could really use that cash injection right now to prevent a recession from happening. Just think of how much shareholder value locking a critically lifesaving drug behind such a high price tag will create. frothingfash