FEB 10 - "Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away"
FEB 27 - "It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear"
MAR 6 - "You have to be calm. It'll go away"
APR 29 - "It's going to go away, this is going to go away"
JUN 15 - "At some point this stuff goes away and it's going away"
JUN 17 - "It's fading away. It's going to fade away".
JUN 18 - "And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good"
JUL 1 - âAnd I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus,â... âI think that at some point, that itâs going to sort of just disappear, I hope.â
Public Citizen immediately declared the pricing âoffensive.â âItâs outrageous,â said Zain Rizvi, a drug-pricing expert who works for the consumer advocacy group. âEven during a pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry canât help but price gouge.â Rizvi said that the price may affect who gets the therapy â and hit the uninsured hardest. âSome patients may choose to skip their care,â he said. âOthers may be on the hook for thousands of dollars.â Hospitals may also be hesitant to use the drug because of its price.
I know it sounds like a lot of money (because it is), but I'd bet it's about the same cost as a couple hours (or less) in the ER, or fifteen minutes in ICU, or a few minutes on a ventilator.
It seems like hospitals would jump at the chance to reduce expenses by reducing a patient's time in treatment. c.
Where you might be gouged as well, unless you have excellent coverage...
Public Citizen immediately declared the pricing âoffensive.â âItâs outrageous,â said Zain Rizvi, a drug-pricing expert who works for the consumer advocacy group. âEven during a pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry canât help but price gouge.â Rizvi said that the price may affect who gets the therapy â and hit the uninsured hardest. âSome patients may choose to skip their care,â he said. âOthers may be on the hook for thousands of dollars.â Hospitals may also be hesitant to use the drug because of its price.
I know it sounds like a lot of money (because it is), but I'd bet it's about the same cost as a couple hours (or less) in the ER, or fifteen minutes in ICU, or a few minutes on a ventilator.
It seems like hospitals would jump at the chance to reduce expenses by reducing a patient's time in treatment. c.
Where you might be gouged as well, unless you have excellent coverage...
Public Citizen immediately declared the pricing âoffensive.â âItâs outrageous,â said Zain Rizvi, a drug-pricing expert who works for the consumer advocacy group. âEven during a pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry canât help but price gouge.â Rizvi said that the price may affect who gets the therapy â and hit the uninsured hardest. âSome patients may choose to skip their care,â he said. âOthers may be on the hook for thousands of dollars.â Hospitals may also be hesitant to use the drug because of its price.
I know it sounds like a lot of money (because it is), but I'd bet it's about the same cost as a couple hours (or less) in the ER, or fifteen minutes in ICU, or a few minutes on a ventilator.
It seems like hospitals would jump at the chance to reduce expenses by reducing a patient's time in treatment. c.
Public Citizen immediately declared the pricing âoffensive.â âItâs outrageous,â said Zain Rizvi, a drug-pricing expert who works for the consumer advocacy group. âEven during a pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry canât help but price gouge.â Rizvi said that the price may affect who gets the therapy â and hit the uninsured hardest. âSome patients may choose to skip their care,â he said. âOthers may be on the hook for thousands of dollars.â Hospitals may also be hesitant to use the drug because of its price.
"The message is really clear if you want to see these lockdowns eased ⦠follow the rules, use common sense, don't pretend it's over."
And that's with 73 new cases yesterday. Can't imaging how US states are going to manage to get a handle on their trends with so many people ignoring the science.
The commission of inquiry will be composed of medical experts, ethicists and economists and will be led by Mats Melin, a former president of Swedenâs supreme administrative court. The government had wanted it to include politicians although that proposal was dropped.
Far out. That's nuts. Why do the insurance companies accept such inflated bills?
Because they don't pay them. They have agreements with the hospitals; the hospital bills a huge amount to establish their rate, but has a contract with insurance that says they'll accept vastly less. But if you're out of network or a self-pay, they can point to the $6000 as "usual and customary" and there you go. America!
There are a number of retailers that practice the same strategy. Their so-called "our regular price" is only posted half the time, or less, to establish evidence of a list price, or some such thing. Then when they advertise the item for 70-90% OFF! , they have many know-nots fall for it and rush in. Watch their ads long enough and you see the clear pattern. Actual market price is really their discounted $ell price.
Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the Covid-19 drug, announced in an open letter on Monday morning that it has decided to set a price of $390 per vial for the US government, which would include Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense hospitals, and other governments of developed countries. But the discounted price will not include Medicare or Medicaid. A typical five-day treatment course would include six vials, which would equate to $2,340 per patient, Daniel O'Day, Gilead Sciences chairman and CEO, said in the letter. The US government will continue to manage US allocations of remdesivir to hospitals through September, the company said. The letter added that the price for US private insurance companies will be $520 per vial, which would total $3,120 per patient for a five-day treatment course of six vials. Hmmm. Yes, there's the argument all patent medicine drug companies argue about recovering cost of development. But really, it's price differentials like this that really piss off the public.
hang on, I thought you didn't like collectivist structures.
Far out. That's nuts. Why do the insurance companies accept such inflated bills?
Because they don't pay them. They have agreements with the hospitals; the hospital bills a huge amount to establish their rate, but has a contract with insurance that says they'll accept vastly less. But if you're out of network or a self-pay, they can point to the $6000 as "usual and customary" and there you go. America!
There are a number of retailers that practice the same strategy. Their so-called "our regular price" is only posted half the time, or less, to establish evidence of a list price, or some such thing. Then when they advertise the item for 70-90% OFF! , they have many know-nots fall for it and rush in. Watch their ads long enough and you see the clear pattern. Actual market price is really their discounted $ell price.
Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the Covid-19 drug, announced in an open letter on Monday morning that it has decided to set a price of $390 per vial for the US government, which would include Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense hospitals, and other governments of developed countries. But the discounted price will not include Medicare or Medicaid. A typical five-day treatment course would include six vials, which would equate to $2,340 per patient, Daniel O'Day, Gilead Sciences chairman and CEO, said in the letter. The US government will continue to manage US allocations of remdesivir to hospitals through September, the company said. The letter added that the price for US private insurance companies will be $520 per vial, which would total $3,120 per patient for a five-day treatment course of six vials.
Hmmm. Yes, there's the argument all patent medicine drug companies argue about recovering cost of development. But really, it's price differentials like this that really piss off the public.
