JOURNAVX bottle and tablet (Photo: Business Wire) The Food and Drug Administration has approved suzetrigine for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain, a new selective… by davideownzall
“Vertex says that the medication will be available for $15.50 per 50-milligram pill, or about $30 per day. In contrast, comparable doses of the hydrocodone and acetaminophen combination retail for an average of about $7 per day.”
Alternative: send Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ board to the guillotine and make the medication available for pennies per 50-milligram pill (at cost) or free (publicly funded).
Should I have added “nationalize it and make future research funded and owned by the public”? (A lot of public funding already goes to medical research, but the profits get privatized.)
Private corporations researching medications so they can price gouge the chronically ill through a copyright-enforced monopoly isn’t the only way to do medical research.
The public is definitely not benefitting enough from the research they fund als also the price gouging at the cost of sick people is very problematic, but I’m not in favour of beheading bad people. But I understand that the longer decision makers continue to allow these bad people to do these bad things, the more likely it becomes the guillotine makes an appearance.
I will bite. How much? Unless its cheaper than opiates, No one is going to put their profit margin above the common good of society.
“Vertex says that the medication will be available for $15.50 per 50-milligram pill, or about $30 per day. In contrast, comparable doses of the hydrocodone and acetaminophen combination retail for an average of about $7 per day.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-journavx-the-new-opioid-free-painkiller-from-vertex/
Alternative: send Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ board to the guillotine and make the medication available for pennies per 50-milligram pill (at cost) or free (publicly funded).
Yes that will get people to do research and make new meds available. /s
Should I have added “nationalize it and make future research funded and owned by the public”? (A lot of public funding already goes to medical research, but the profits get privatized.)
Private corporations researching medications so they can price gouge the chronically ill through a copyright-enforced monopoly isn’t the only way to do medical research.
That’s the way.
The public is definitely not benefitting enough from the research they fund als also the price gouging at the cost of sick people is very problematic, but I’m not in favour of beheading bad people. But I understand that the longer decision makers continue to allow these bad people to do these bad things, the more likely it becomes the guillotine makes an appearance.
Found the corporate bootlicker.
I think you (unintentionally) have that backwards. The companies absolutely will and do put their profit margin above the common good.
Yeah…. My bad