Hepatitis drug would cost Missouri $1 billion, says Express Scripts, @Liber8 @Gilead

Cure costs $67 to make,

costs $84,000 to buy

Hepatitis drug would cost Missouri $1 billion, says Express Scripts

A new hepatitis C drug could cripple state budgets, costing the country $55 billion to treat 750,000 people with government insurance, according to an analysis by Express Scripts.
Missouri would need to pay out $1 billion and Illinois $2.3 billion to treat all of the states' residents with hepatitis C who are either in prison or receive Medicaid benefits.
The drug, Sovaldi, costs $1,000 per pill or $84,000 for a 12-week regimen.

  

 George Paz Express Scripts

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 SOVALDI COSTS $67 PER CURE (84 PILLS) TO MAKE.

The Republican Healthcare Plan

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

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•     War Criminals Donald Rumsfeld and George Schultz History at Gilead Sciences. #Liber8 #Gilead

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/gilead-science-eugenics-mass-murder-of.html

•     Gilead Science, Eugenics Mass Murder of the Poor

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/kevin-e-loftons-new-tuskegee.html

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

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-more-you-know-kevin-e-lofton-liber8.html

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

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/liber8-gilead-john-w-madigan-mgr-of.html

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

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-f-cogan-gilead-director-liber8.html

•     John F. Cogan, Gilead Director -- #Liber8 #Gilead

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-sovaldi-cost-to.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead #Sovaldi : Sovaldi Cost to Manufacture $67, price $84,000.

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sciences-ceo-martin-180.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead Sciences CEO Martin : $180 Million Man

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-this-drug-costs-84000-in-us-but.html

•     Gilead: This Drug Costs $84,000 in the U.S., but Just $900 Elsewhere

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-tamiflu-george-schultz-donald.html

•     Gilead, Tamiflu, George Schultz, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush

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

•     What Price Antiviral Drugs? Sovaldi Hep-C Cure @$150 to $250 per person, sells @$84,000

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-tax-gilead-cant.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: The Sovaldi Tax: Gilead Can't Justify The Price It's Asking Americans To Pay

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-ny-extorted-to-pay-84000.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: NY extorted to pay $84,000 for drug that costs $67 to make.

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

•     We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug

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Cost Of Sovaldi And Other Specialty Drugs Worries States, Pharmaceutical Executives @Liber8 @Gilead

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2014/July/21/Drug-prices.aspx

Cost Of Sovaldi And Other Specialty Drugs Worries States, Pharmaceutical Executives @Liber8 @Gilead

Jul 21, 2014

News outlets continue to examine how Solvadi - usually an expensive cure for hepatitis-C - might affect budgets.

The Wall Street Journal: Lucrative Drug Niche Sparks Legal Scramble
The pharmaceutical industry's battle for dominance in the fast-growing and lucrative market for treatments of hepatitis C is prompting an unprecedented legal scramble. The prospect that hepatitis-C drug sales could soar to $20 billion annually by the end of the decade is spurring attempts by drug companies to assert the patent rights they'll need to grab a piece of the pie (Loftus, 7/20).

Politico Pro: Report: Look At Overall Impact, Not Pill Price, Of Costly Drugs
Debate over the costly new drug treatment for hepatitis C is focused on the $1,000 a pill price tag, but the real issue is the total impact on the health care system and how to systematically deal with it, CVS officials write in a commentary published Sunday. Gilead’s Sovaldi “is not really a per-unit cost outlier, but is a ‘total cost’ outlier because of its high cost combined with a very large population eligible for treatment — and a beacon for costs of specialty medications generally,” CVS Chief Medical Officer Troyen Brennan and Chief Scientific Officer William Shrank argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The total cost of treatment — about $84,000 just for the course of Sovaldi — is high. When multiplied by the estimated 3 million Americans who have the disease, the potential magnitude comes into focus: $250 billion (Norman, 7/20).

"  With broader screening, the pool of eligible patients may be as high as 3 million in the United States alone.⁷ The simple math is that treatment of patients with HCV could add $200 to $300 per year to every insured American’s health insurance premium for each of the next 5 years. Thus sofosbuvir is not really a per-unit cost outlier but is a “total cost” outlier because of its high cost and very large population eligible for treatment  "

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Hepatitis Drug Would Cost Missouri $1 Billion, Says Express Scripts

A new hepatitis C drug could cripple state budgets, costing the country $55 billion to treat 750,000 people with government insurance, according to an analysis by Express Scripts. Missouri would need to pay out $1 billion and Illinois $2.3 billion to treat all of the states' residents with hepatitis C who are either in prison or receive Medicaid benefits. The drug, Sovaldi, costs $1,000 per pill or $84,000 for a 12-week regimen. The drug's researchers at St. Louis University say the drug can eliminate the virus in up to 95 percent of patients (Bernhard, 7/18).

The Boston Globe: Specialty Drugs Save, Transform Lives — But At A Cost
Every year, Cora Higson fills out a sheaf of forms and waits several long, anxious days to learn whether a charity will pay for the drug she needs to breathe. The medication — Tracleer — is so essential, Higson says, that she is supposed to call her doctor immediately if she misses a dose. But her share of the cost is a whopping $1,111.47 per month. ... A quarter of the 40,000 Massachusetts residents who sought help last year from the National Patient Advocate Foundation said their biggest problem was affording the out-of-pocket cost of pharmaceuticals (Freyer, 7/21).

 
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-584812/

Hepatitis C Spurs Unusual Patent Wars Among Big Drug Makers

... but there is another intriguing aspect to this classic pharmaceutical horse race – a series of lawsuits filed over patents. Specifically, Gilead Sciences, which was first out of the gate with the expensive and successful Sovaldi treatment, is fighting no fewer than three other drug makers in court – Merck, AbbVie and Roche – over valuable patent rights.

... AbbVie has taken a particularly aggressive stance by obtaining U.S. patents covering combinations of dozens of drugs to treat the disease, including those developed by Gilead, because it is developing its own combination treatment. And so, AbbVie wants monetary damages if Gilead begins selling a combination treatment.

As for Merck, Gilead filed a preemptive lawsuit after receiving a phone call from a Merck executive who proposed licensing two Merck patents to Gilead in exchange for a 10% royalty on sales of all medicines including Sovaldi. Gilead called this a “prohibitive demand.” Merck later responded in court by claiming that Sovaldi infringes on its patents that cover compounds related to the active ingredient in Sovaldi.

Roche, meanwhile, claims it has rights to Sovaldi thanks to a decade-old research collaboration with Pharmasset, which developed the drug and was purchased by Gilead two years ago for more than $11 billion. Roche wants an exclusive license and claims Gilead infringed on its rights.

 SOVALDI COSTS $67 PER CURE (84 PILLS) TO MAKE.

The Republican Healthcare Plan

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http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/war-criminals-donald-rumsfeld-and.html

•     War Criminals Donald Rumsfeld and George Schultz History at Gilead Sciences. #Liber8 #Gilead

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/gilead-science-eugenics-mass-murder-of.html

•     Gilead Science, Eugenics Mass Murder of the Poor

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/kevin-e-loftons-new-tuskegee.html

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

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-more-you-know-kevin-e-lofton-liber8.html

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

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

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-f-cogan-gilead-director-liber8.html

•     John F. Cogan, Gilead Director -- #Liber8 #Gilead

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-sovaldi-cost-to.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead #Sovaldi : Sovaldi Cost to Manufacture $67, price $84,000.

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sciences-ceo-martin-180.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead Sciences CEO Martin : $180 Million Man

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-this-drug-costs-84000-in-us-but.html

•     Gilead: This Drug Costs $84,000 in the U.S., but Just $900 Elsewhere

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-tamiflu-george-schultz-donald.html

•     Gilead, Tamiflu, George Schultz, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush

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

•     What Price Antiviral Drugs? Sovaldi Hep-C Cure @$150 to $250 per person, sells @$84,000

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-tax-gilead-cant.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: The Sovaldi Tax: Gilead Can't Justify The Price It's Asking Americans To Pay

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-ny-extorted-to-pay-84000.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: NY extorted to pay $84,000 for drug that costs $67 to make.

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

•     We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug

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

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

@RonWyden @ElizabethWarren @HillaryClinton @NAACP @SEIU @Teamsters @AFLCIO @HepC @HCV @Liber8 @Gilead

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

By Sean Williams

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.

July 14, 2014

Where's the Competition?

The Myths of Big Corporate Capitalism

by RALPH NADER

... Forget marketplace competition when it comes to the abuse of the monopoly patent system for medicines, steeped in taxpayer-funded basic research, and its obsolete rationale for encouraging innovation. Welcome to the $1,000 pill – yes the price of Gilead Sciences latest drug, Sovaldi, which is used to treat hepatitis C, a liver-destroying virus. It is said to have fewer side effects and a higher cure rate than its counterparts. Taken daily at a cost of $1,000 a pill, the twelve-week treatment that is recommended for most patients costs $84,000 and a twenty-four week course of treatment for the hard-to-treat strain costs or $168,000.
Use of this drug is beginning to break the budgets of the insurance company payers. Representatives from Doctors Without Borders has said that a twelve-week course of treatment should cost no more than $500. Gilead did not sweat out the research and development of this drug. Gilead simply bought Pharmasset – the company with the patent on this drug. Not surprisingly, Gilead stock has surged upward, oblivious to surging public criticism.

Some overseas countries are not so submissive to the “pay or die” corporate edict. The nonprofit group I-MAK (Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge) has filed a challenge to the patent, claiming that Sovaldi is based on “old science” with “a known compound,” thereby not meeting India’s stringent requirements for patentability.

Additionally, economist Jamie Love has developed an alternative to such “pay or die” patent monopoly prices while keeping rewards for true innovations (http://www.keionline.org/). ...

 

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

[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

July 14, 2014 | By Tracy Staton

Add a new set of pricing foes for Gilead Sciences ($GILD). A U.S. Senate committee has joined the forces arrayed against the company's breakthrough hepatitis C drug Sovaldi and its $84,000 price tag.

But this time, Gilead's adversaries are using different ammo. Rather than focusing on the sheer expense of treating millions of Americans with the pricey drug, the senators are digging into the acquisition that brought Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) to Gilead. And they're questioning treatment protocols quickly revised to include Sovaldi, approved by the FDA late last year.

As The Wall Street Journal reports, the Senate Finance Committee dispatched a letter to CEO John Martin on Friday, taking issue with Sovaldi's $1,000-per-pill price. Like other critics of the expensive drug, Sen. Charles Grassley, long a thorn in pharma's side, and panel chairman Sen. Ron Wyden demanded justification for its steep price. Treating only one-tenth of Medicare's hep C patients would add $2 billion to its immediate drug spending, the senators noted in their letter.

But the committee also asked for documents related to Gilead's $11 billion buyout of Pharmasset, Sovaldi's original developer. The smaller company had forecast a $36,000 price per treatment course, less than half of Gilead's current price. The senators asked to see Gilead's communications with its investment bankers, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, about their valuation of Pharmasset during merger talks and the related pricing assumptions for Sovaldi. They also want to know how much Pharmasset spent on R&D while developing the treatment.

Gilead CEO John Martin

The senators also want Gilead to detail its Sovaldi-related research costs since the 2012 buyout. And they're demanding to know how much Gilead plans to charge for a Sovaldi combo pill expected to make its debut later this year. The two-drug combination will make hepatitis C treatment more tolerable for most patients, because they won't need to take the difficult-to-tolerate interferon, a staple of current hep C-fighting cocktails.

Meanwhile, the panel is questioning new treatment guidelines developed jointly by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the Infectious Disease Society of America. Eighteen of the 27 panel members that worked on the guidelines have either been paid by Gilead or work for institutions funded by Gilead. At the time the guidelines were released, the two organizations said that the panel excluded anyone who worked for companies making hep C drugs or who gave promotional talks about the drugs.

The senators' probe adds to the pressure on Gilead and its pricey drug. U.S. insurers and Medicaid payers have been up in arms since the drug rolled out, and European countries now say they plan to demand deep discounts. In an unprecedented move, 14 EU countries will share information to help one another negotiate better prices. Lacking that sort of pricing power, U.S. payers are hoping competition will help bring prices down, and in the meantime, are trying to limit patients' access to the drug.

- read the WSJ piece (sub. req.)
- get the Finance Committee letter (PDF)
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 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/gilead-science-eugenics-mass-murder-of.html

•     Gilead Science, Eugenics Mass Murder of the Poor

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/kevin-e-loftons-new-tuskegee.html

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

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-more-you-know-kevin-e-lofton-liber8.html

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

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

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-f-cogan-gilead-director-liber8.html

•     John F. Cogan, Gilead Director -- #Liber8 #Gilead

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-sovaldi-cost-to.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead #Sovaldi : Sovaldi Cost to Manufacture $67, price $84,000.

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sciences-ceo-martin-180.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead Sciences CEO Martin : $180 Million Man

http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-this-drug-costs-84000-in-us-but.html

•     Gilead: This Drug Costs $84,000 in the U.S., but Just $900 Elsewhere

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/gilead-tamiflu-george-schultz-donald.html

•     Gilead, Tamiflu, George Schultz, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush

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

•     What Price Antiviral Drugs? Sovaldi Hep-C Cure @$150 to $250 per person, sells @$84,000

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-sovaldi-tax-gilead-cant.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: The Sovaldi Tax: Gilead Can't Justify The Price It's Asking Americans To Pay

 http://liber8-gilead.blogspot.com/2014/06/liber8-gilead-ny-extorted-to-pay-84000.html

•     #Liber8 #Gilead: NY extorted to pay $84,000 for drug that costs $67 to make.

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

•     We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug

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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

#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.

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

1656 S MONROE ST

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...