It’s not an imaginary scenario. For example, look at Sovaldi, the $84,000 hepatitis C cure. That’s less than the total cost of long-term treatment but it didn’t exactly make Gilead popular.
sovaldi is priced like this because they can, once it goes off patent price will drop significantly, drop one zero at least. japanese price is 300$ because govt negotiated it and covers most of it (99%). price for egyptian govt is 900$
It’s not an imaginary scenario. For example, look at Sovaldi, the $84,000 hepatitis C cure. That’s less than the total cost of long-term treatment but it didn’t exactly make Gilead popular.
sovaldi is priced like this because they can, once it goes off patent price will drop significantly, drop one zero at least. japanese price is 300$ because govt negotiated it and covers most of it (99%). price for egyptian govt is 900$