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May 30, 2007
Drug Access = Drug Profits?
Turns out that the lobbying push for better access to HIV medicines in Canada perhaps had a profit motive. If your national health care system will pay buy the drugs you make, it gives you a regular revenue stream. This is not unheard of and it's probably going to crop up in a lot of places. Last year I covered a Abbott Labs-sponsored buffet dinner for poor AIDS patients in New York, and I couldn't figure out why the company was wining and dining them. Then it hits me: New York has a very comprehensive health care system for the poor -- which would cover the new version of Abbott's Kaletra, the drug that was the subject of the dinner's PowerPoint presentations and postprandial entertainment.
Posted by Adam Graham-Silverman at May 30, 2007 12:36 AM