Cost
Interviews:
John Barranger
Cost of upscaling the process.
I would love an inexpensive treatment-- this isn't it.
Economic impact of cerezyme.
Ernest Buetler
Economic demands-- what can the health care system can afford?
Expensive drugs-- What can the health care system afford?
New Gaucher drugs and their cost.
Mary Nathan
Difficulty with insurance.
Price of cerezyme and issues around it.
Why no improvements in cerezyme?
How do we deal with the the health care prices?
Henry Waxman
Most orphan drugs are not profitable.
We need a system to make expensive drugs available.
We need competition in the drug market to keep costs competitive.
Abbey Meyers
Unexpected costs.
Problems with getting insurance.
The first drug tends to be very expensive.
America's medical care is not the best.
The cost of ceredase and cerezyme.
Costs and profits from "orphan drugs".
Henri Termeer
Cerezyme is set at one price, or we give it away for free.
The difference between discovery research and translational research.