Saturday, July 19, 2014

India Just Did What Millions of Americans Wish the U.S. Government Would Do

India Just Did What Millions of Americans Wish the U.S. Government Would Do




Source: StockMonkeys.com, Flickr.
India lays down the law on drugmakers
Just last week India announced in a surprise decision from the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, or NPPA, that it would be capping the price of 108 different drugs ranging from diabetes treatments to HIV therapies in order to make access to these drugs more affordable for Indian citizens. This decision follows a move last year in which India initiated price controls on more than 30% of existing medicines within the country, once again in an effort to ensure that its citizens have access to these much needed drugs.

Think about what a price cap would mean in the United States. Right now there's a huge debate over the price being charged for Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD  ) revolutionary oral hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi, which runs roughly $1,000 per day. A standard 12-week treatment is therefore going to cost the patient and insurance company a whopping $84,000.


On one hand Gilead could be viewed as justified in its superior pricing given that Sovaldi can be offered to select genotypes without the need for interferon, thus dramatically reducing the side effects associated with treatment. More importantly, Sovaldi's success rate of eliminating detectable levels of the disease after 12-weeks ranged 90% and higher in its multiple clinical studies. Yet, this is a price that's far too high for most uninsured Americans to pay and is even causing insurers to grimace in pain. Gilead has also taken substantial heat from Congress over the pricing of its drug, to the point where it's even possible that insurers could begin denying coverage to members simply because of Sovaldi's high cost. If price caps were in place within the U.S. this wouldn't even be a discussion.






The French Government Must Issue a Compulsory License for Sofosbuvir & Seek the Usage of Generics to Treat Hepatitis C

act up basel[ACT-UP Basel Press Release, Link] Act Up-Basel called the French government to learn from the current situation regarding access to new direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) molecules used in the treatment of hepatitis C (HCV), to exercise Article L613 -16 of the Code of Industrial Property on the transmission and loss of patent holder rights to issue a compulsory license [i] and make available generic versions of sofosbuvir.

Since Sofosbuvir was licensed for sell on the European market, hepatitis experts and organizations working on HCV in France are quite certain : According to their computation, access to HCV new treatments in France will only be possible through an out-of-reach spending from the national health insurance. To treat 55% of people infected with chronic HCV in France (133,000 patients, with an advanced stage of infection – stage 2-4 fibrosis or “F2″ to “F4″), the national health insurance must pay the equivalent of the annual budget of all Parisian hospitals and health centres (Assistance Public – Hôpitaux de Paris – AP-HP) for the purchase of sofosbuvir (SOF) alone [ii] or € 7 billion. To cover the cost of the triple therapy with peg-interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) for genotype 1 (Western Europe’s most common genotype) and then, in the near future, another DAA, the price of a two-or triple therapy will be even higher. With a new DAA such as datasclavir (BMS-052), it would cost between €100,000 and 150,000 per person for a 12 week treatment, while the production cost of sofosbuvir and datasclavir combined is estimated between €57 and €122. The profit reached by Gilead Sciences, the pharmaceutical corporation marketing Sovaldi (followed by Bristol Myers Squibb for datasclavir very soon) is huge. It exceeds the margins of all other industries by far, including luxury industry. For example, Sovaldi currently marketed in the United States has already helped Gilead to rake approximately $2.3 billion in a quarter [iii].

A pill that costs €2.5 to produce, sold €650: the pharmaceutical industry is the most “profitable” for all industries.

 

Riled by $84,000 Sovaldi, Senate panel digs into Gilead's Pharmasset buy

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

How do you pay for a drug that costs $84,000?

How do you pay for a drug that costs $84,000?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/15/how-do-you-pay-for-a-drug-that-costs-84000/


Comments:

thomas matthew
12:51 PM PST
Over the last 3 years Gilead has spent 5 billion on research, that is for all drugs, not just sovaldi. to treat 3 million people at 84K would bring in 250 billion. That is ridiculously extortionate pricing. A reasonable profit is one thing, but that is criminal, clearly the pricing only makes sense if you don't expect to treat many people.
Liann
3:00 PM PST
More Republican Eugenics. Kill off the lowest 10% has been the GOP Party Line since John D. Rockefeller started giving millions to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany for Racial Hygiene programs when Adolph Hiltler was a schoolboy. Him and his money partners in the Harriman fortune family funded the Eugenics Office at Cold Springs Harbor on the estate of John Foster Dulles (his lawyer). His junior partner George Herbert Walker, and Walker's son-in-law Prescott Bush set up the money conduit from Wall Street to Fritz Thyssen's European banks to fund the rise of Hitler. Walker and Bush were on the Board of directors of the Hamburg-America Shipping Lines ship that was turned back to Nazi Europe to return Jewish refugees called "Voyage of the Damned". 

GILEAD was co-founded by Poison Gas suppliers to Saddam Hussein, Rumsfeld and Schultz, and GILEAD stole $2,000,000,000 from US taxpayers on the worthless TAMIFLU drug they sold using political connections in the Bush govt. TAMIFLU has never (NEVER) been demonstrated to protect against Bird-Flu-type-flu for which it was sold. Even regular flu it doesn't prevent but may shorten by only 1 day, if your skin doesn't all fall off and you die from the drug. 

One of Gilead directors is former manager of Audits department for Arthur Andersen, the people who cooked Enron's books and destroyed $400,000,000,000 of investors value. 

Another one of the directors was on Bush's Council of Economic Advisors who helped engineer the crash of the Bush economy in 2008 which nearly wrecked America. Cogan, he still hangs out with Schultz and co-authors advice papers over at Hoover Institution for Pampering War Criminals, and sometimes they lunch there with Condi Rice to discuss the good old days when torture was not an international war crime, but a respectable way of business.

Zobrist
1:04 PM PST
As Thomas indicated that pricing is extortionary. Do we really believe that if they did not get these prices they would stop R&D? If they did that then no new drugs would be developed to create new revenue streams and as drugs came off of patent protection their revenues and therefore profits would drop precipitously. No this should be about drug companies keeping in mind their social responsibility while setting a price that is a fair return for the risks taken .

Liann
2:29 PM PST
They DID NO R&D -- they hijacked a company, paid $11B hush money to make the top dogs go away, and are ransoming a development largely produced at John Hopkins by taxpayers expense. 
 
Gilead did no R&D at all. 
 
http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/liber8-g... 
#Liber8 #Gilead, the Corp Established by Poison Gas War Criminals #Rumsfeld #Schultz

#Liber8 #Gilead John W. Madigan, Mgr of Audit Dept of Arthur Andersen, where Enron's Books were Cooked

#Liber8 #Gilead John W. Madigan, Mgr of Audit Dept of Arthur Andersen, where Enron's Books were Cooked, helped lose $400,000,000,000.00 of investor's money.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=774434&ticker=GILD



http://www.muckety.com/John-W-Madigan/4235.muckety




























#Liber8 #Gilead, the Corp Established by Poison Gas War Criminals #Rumsfeld #Schultz

To recoup their investment ($11B) from the 3M US Hep-C patients costs $3666.67 per patient, or spread out around the world's 107M cases costs $102.81 per person. Add to that $67 per cure bottle of pills each person. Add to that 100% markup (double) for profit, it's less than $400 each cure.

Nobody put a gun to their head and forced GILEAD to buy PHARMASSET, and GILEAD invested ZERO DOLLARS and ZERO CENTS developing the drug, which they BOUGHT, NOT DEVELOPED.

In essence, an Organized Crime Gang founded by Saddam Hussein Poison Gas Supply Partners Donald Rumsfeld and George Schultz, has hijacked a company in broad daylight, and paid off hush money to the top brass of the taken-over company to go away, then threatens to murder millions of Americans unless we pay them a ransom which bankrupts the USA.

70,000 people are waiting for a liver transplant because of Hep-C. The operation buys the doctor a new house, pretty nice fancy house. A transplant costs $10,000 per year for life for the anti-rejection drugs that have to be taken every day until you die. A person living with a transplant for 20 years costs $200,000, which is paid for by public disability funds since the sick person can no longer work.

Only the German National Socialists were willing to kill their poor to save medical costs, until the Republicans came along, and now them too.

We all pay for $1000 pill...

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/httpedition.html

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-price-antiviral-drugs-sovaldi-hep.html

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-price-antiviral-drugs-sovaldi-hep.html

It costs $67 to make a three month CURE supply of this drug produced by a company established by Saddam Hussein Poison Gas Partners Donald Rumsfeld and George Schultz, who robbed America of  $2,000,000,000 over worthless Tamiflu using the same shell company GILEAD.

Geez, learn to Google already and keep off the GOP dupe koolaid.

Monday, July 14, 2014

The More You Know Kevin E Lofton... #Liber8 #Gilead

See also another page:

Kevin E. Lofton's New Tuskegee Experiments on Blacks with Hepatitis-C, #Liber8 #Gilead 


http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/47-Tamarade-Dr-Littleton-CO-80127/13830885_zpid/

47 Tamarade Dr, Littleton, CO 80127
5 beds, 3.75 baths, 4,276 sqft
Off Market
Zestimate®: $1,019,023
http://www.primarypost.com/fec/2010/1590508/-Kevin-E-Lofton/47-Tamarade-Dr-Littleton-CO-80127

Kevin E Lofton , whose occupation is reported in campaign filings as "Hospital Admin" and employer as "Catholic Health Iniative,"  made their contribution payable to Rangel For Congress 2000.
 
CAMPAIGN CLOSE-UP
DONOR: Kevin E Lofton 47 Tamarade Dr Littleton,CO 80127
OCCUPATION: Hospital Admin
EMPLOYER: Catholic Health Iniative
CONTRIBUTION: $500.00 SUPPORTING Charles B. Rangel (D) FOR US House
RECIPIENT COMMITTEE:Rangel For Congress 2000




http://coloradovoters.info/by_name/pages/l217.html


LOFTON, MAUDE B was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 47 TAMARADE DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4129888.




https://www.stlucie.county-taxes.com/public/real_estate/parcels/4427-700-0082-000-0/bills/341087


PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE IN US FUNDS.
Owner
Lofton, Maude B`
47 Tamarade Dr
Littleton, CO 80127
Situs address
00162 SE Bella Strano
City of Port St. Lucie, FL 



http://www.ahanews.com/ahanews/jsp/display.jsp?dcrpath=AHANEWS/AHANewsArticle/data/AHA_News_070903_Dr.Maude_Lofton&domain=AHANEWS

... Maude returned to Jacksonville to do her pediatric training, and it was during her pediatric emergency department (ED) rotation at University Medical Center (now Shands Jacksonville) that she met Kevin, who was the hospital’s ED administrator. The two struck up a “friendship that just eased into a more serious relationship,” she recalls, and they were married in 1981. They have two children, Kevin and Joanna. ...

...In 1998, Maude joined the pediatric faculty at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where Kevin had accepted a post as a group president for Catholic Health Initiatives. ... Just six months later, Kevin took the reins as CHI’s chief operating officer in Denver. ...

... “The best thing about America’s health care system is that we have the best technology, the most up-to-date treatments, and some of the brightest people in the field,” Maude said. “The worst thing is that it’s not accessible to everybody. We need to get the various special interest groups to agree to come to the table and dialogue without getting incensed.”

She says the AHA can play a pivotal role in such a discourse because it represents so many different types of health care facilities. “The AHA can develop a consensus from a very broad-based group – including the patients and providers hospitals interact with – and bring that voice to the table,” she said.

http://www.denvergov.org/Property/realproperty/comparables/161555248

Owner PIN Legal Description Property Type Tax District
LOFTON,KEVIN E & JOHANNA E
10365 PRAIRIE SKY PL
LONE TREE , CO 80124-5210
161555248
Schedule Number
0524432008000
S 50FT OF N 100FT OF W 126FT OF BLK 5 CORONADO RESIDENTIAL DENV


http://www.efs.cpf.state.ma.us/PrintFullReport.aspx?reportId=196159

CREDIT CARD  Lofton , Kevin 10365 Prairie Sky Pl Lone Tree, CO 80124-5210 Health Care Executive Catholic Health Initiatives $500.00

http://www.efs.cpf.state.ma.us/DisplayReport.aspx?pdf=true&reportId=196007

5/13/2014 Lofton , Kevin $500.00 Health Care Executive 10365 Prairie Sky Pl CREDIT CARD Catholic Health Initia Lone Tree, CO 80124-5210




Kevin E. Lofton Appointed to Rite Aid Board of Directors ...

finance.yahoo.com/.../kevin-e-lofton-appointed-rite-192...
Yahoo! Finance
Nov 12, 2013 - From Yahoo Finance: Rite Aid Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Kevin E. Lofton, president and CEO of ...

 SO, the anti-Birth-Control Head of CHI controls the dispensing and charging patients in his ring of hospitals, denying Gilead Cures to the poor blacks, but reaping 200,000% markups on those which the govt has to care for, in prisons and in mental hospitals and in states with  Medicaid. He rings up a profit at the hospital, rings up another profit at the drug store, then rings up his millions of profits at Gilead.


Yup, it's personal.



The Republican Healthcare Plan

 is the same as the Nazi Healthcare Plan for Old Jews...




Kevin E. Lofton's New Tuskegee Experiments on Blacks with Hepatitis-C, #Liber8 #Gilead

The $1,000 a Pill, $84,000 cure, that costs Gilead $67 to make...


40 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare

Kevin E. Lofton. Kevin Lofton is the president and CEO of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the third-largest Catholic healthcare system in the nation with $9 billion in annual revenue and 73 hospitals. According to Mr. Lofton, CHI is developing accountable care organization pilots in four markets and will invest $1.5 billion in EHRs and other IT systems from 2010-2015 to enhance quality of care. The hospital system is in the midst of a potential merger that would put Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare and University Hospital in Louisville under the control of Catholic Health Initiatives by merging the hospitals with St. Joseph Health System of Lexington. The merger has met with controversy because the hospitals have agreed to follow Catholic healthcare directives, including not providing sterilization and birth control. The company also recently acquired therapy services from Applied Medical, a large independent physical and occupational practice in North Dakota.

Over $2,000,000 Gilead Stocks and $400,000 salary as Director of Gilead Sciences, the pill that blacks can't afford, worldwide.

http://www.forbes.com/profile/kevin-lofton/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/kevin-lofton/


Response to Hep C Treatment Worse for Blacks - WebMD

www.webmd.com/hepatitis/.../response-to-hep-c-treatment-wors...
WebMD
May 26, 2004 - The rate of chronic hepatitis C infection is about twice as high for blacks in the United States as for non-Hispanic whites, and the rate of infection ...
 

Hepatitis C Statistics - National Medical Association

www.nmanet.org/index.php?...id...
National Medical Association
African American Hepatitis C Statistics. African American represents 13% of the U.S population, but make up about 22% of the chronic hepatitis C cases.1 ...

Top Stories : Black Women With HIV and Hep C Less Likely ...

www.aidsmeds.com › Treatment News
Sep 7, 2012 - Much is known about the prevalence, course and treatment of chronic HCV infection in blacks, including those coinfected with HIV.
 

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in African Americans

cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/1/82.full
Clinical Infectious Diseases
by BL Pearlman - ‎2006 - ‎Cited by 27 - ‎Related articles
African American persons with hepatitis C–related cirrhosis have higher rates of both hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cancer–related mortality than do white ...

Hepatitis C in African Americans - HCV Advocate

www.hcvadvocate.org/hcsp%5Carticles/muir-1.html
by AJ Muir - ‎Related articles
A report using these data estimated that 1.8% (3.9 million) of the U.S. population had a positive HCV antibody test but found this rate was higher in blacks than ...
 

Hepatitis C Statistics - National Medical Association

www.nmanet.org/index.php?...id...
National Medical Association
African American Hepatitis C Statistics. African American represents 13% of the U.S population, but make up about 22% of the chronic hepatitis C cases.1 ...

New hepatitis C drugs could overwhelm Medicaid agencies

www.pewtrusts.org/.../could-new-hepatitis-c-dr...
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Feb 28, 2014 - Because the prevalence of hepatitis C is about two times higher among Medicaid beneficiaries ... Will there be a black market for the drugs?

Racial differences in hepatitis C treatment eligibility - NATAP

www.natap.org/2011/HCV/071211_04.htm
Hepatitis C disproportionately affects black Americans; the prevalence of chronic HCV infection and resultant liver disease is higher among blacks than other ...
 

DailyTech - Hepatitis C "Miracle Drug" Will Cost Americans ...

www.dailytech.com/Hepatitis+C.../article34653.htm
DailyTech
Apr 3, 2014 - The broken system has also created a thriving black market of ... For now, when it comes to Hepatitis C the sucess rate is so high and the ...

Could new hepatitis C drugs bust state budgets? - USA Today

www.usatoday.com/story/news/...hepatitis-c.../5973133/
USA Today
Mar 3, 2014 - Because the prevalence of hepatitis C is about two times higher among Medicaid beneficiaries ...
 

Hepatitis C crisis in Black community

phillytrib.com/news/health/hepatitis-c-crisis-in-black-community.html
Nov 19, 2013 - The study “Hepatitis C: A Crisis in the African American Community” ... in higher primary liver cancer and death rates due to liver disease in ...
 

Hepatitis C Drug Price Limiting State Medicaid Approvals ...

www.bloomberg.com/.../hepatitis-c-drug-price-limiting-s...
Bloomberg L.P.
Mar 5, 2014 - The price of Gilead Sciences Inc.'s $1000-a-day hepatitis C pill is ... to be black, less likely to finish high school than the average American and ...
 
 

 The Republican Healthcare Plan

 is the same as the Nazi Healthcare Plan for Old Jews...

 

 
 

We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug

We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug 

Kevin Lofton Just Stole 10% of your healthcare premium money, because everybody's rates go up when the cures cost skyhigh.  Your healthcare premiums pays for Gilead Gouging even if you don't have Hep-C.


Gilead Science, Eugenics Mass Murder of the Poor

BIBLE, Book of Hosea
◄ Hosea 6:8 ►
American Standard Version

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.


 
 
 

Sunday, July 13, 2014

#Liber8 #Gilead ::: Continuum Liber8 images & clips





Episode 1.10: ENDTIMES, Eduardo Kagame blows the skyscraper to kill five Pharma execs from different corporations meeting to fix prices to exclude the poor. Liber8 and the Theseus Movement gains thousands of recruits. Click image for slightly larger view.














EXOTROL CORPORATE CEO HOSTAGE: CEO is taken hostage, with bomb strapped to her chest which the police cannot defuse in time. She is forced to confess that she and the Board stole pension funds from employees on an internet broadcast. Liber8 gains thousands of new recruits. Online public is allowed to vote: Live or Die.






http://liber8.com/posters.php


http://www.scribd.com/doc/88908068/Liber8-Manifesto

CORPORATE HOSTILE TAKEOVER: Sonmanto Corporation drives down stock prices to buy control cheap of Fermitas Corporation by staging a poison gas attack on a top managers meeting. Their agent Neelon from Graypoint Security Systems (wholly-owned subsidiary of Sonmanto) contrives the details of the mass murder to cast blame on Liber8.


Ep-3.10 Liber8 sets up it's own Corporate Hostile Takeover of Gautuma Medical Corporation.


GAUTUMA MEDICAL GETS FISTED: Gautuma Medical appropriated a criminal street drug called "Flash" which give intense experiences and memory enhancements. Unfortunately, it is also highly addictive and causes psychotic episodes with destructive consequences. Intending to claim it as their own invention and market it  as an Alzheimer's medicine, Gautuma is preparing for drug trials as both the police and Liber8 begin to move in on Gautuma. Ultimately Kiera wins out, exposing the origins and dangers of "Flash" and Gautuma's attempt to misrepresent it. This follows immediately on the heels of a data dump in public online which exposed Sonmanto framing and smearing a whistleblower, Julian Randol. Matthew Kellog is seen on the phone warning a Global Corporate Congress Fortune 500-type that they Piron-Liber8 "will burn you down".