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Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
Smallteacher, Richard http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=16083
Publisher: CorpWatch
Date Written: 13/07/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
A new drug called Sovaldi, intended to treat Hepatitis C, is incredibly unaffordable and inaccessible for Americans.
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Today, Gilead charges U.S. customers $84,000 for a full 12 week course of Solvadi even though the actual manufacturing costs are estimated to fall somewhere between between $68 and $1,400. Gilead also sells a combination drug package known as Harvoni at $94,500 for a full treatment.
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But the stock market has sent the company's share price soaring to four times the book value when it bought up Pharmasset five years ago.
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Ironically, Gilead sells Sovaldi for much less outside the U.S.. including in Ireland. A full course in the U.K. costs $57,000 and just $900 in Schinazi's native Egypt.
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