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To cure cancer and live? Seems pretty cheap to me.
by muninn_ 10y ago
To cure cancer and live? Seems pretty cheap to me.
- pmiller2 10y agoI didn't say it wouldn't be worth it, just that it's expensive. There are certainly access issues to consider here if this comes to market.
- gdulli 10y agoSome people don't have $4000 so it's not a matter of deciding whether parting with that much money is worthwhile. And the status of a lot of people's health insurance is suddenly up in the air.
- popey456963 10y agoFirst result on Googling the normal cost of cancer treatments > Newly approved cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 per month, with some therapies topping $30,000 per month, according to ASCO, which discussed the costs of cancer care at a recent meeting. Just a decade ago, the average cost per month of new drugs was about $4,500. It seems $4,000 is rather a small fee in comparison.
- awinder 10y agoNitpick: it's $4000 per dose, and you're comparing to the monthly cost
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- mariuolo 10y ago> Some people don't have $4000 so it's not a matter of deciding whether parting with that much money is worthwhile. But then those people wouldn't be able to afford other treatments either.
- drak0n1c 10y agoThe insurance market and the government providing medicaid loves these types of cures. An effective cure that costs a few thousand dollars is obviously worth the healthy cured people living to pay premiums for the rest of their healthy life. Much preferable to a costly patient needing many treatments in the tens of thousands of dollars in the insurance pool. The economics are much better than what the system currently bears.