Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: The Hep C Buyers Club

Logan O'Callahan

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:52:33 +1300

This could probably have had a follow up.

Pharmac has since funded two of the new Hep C treatments – and appears to get these two at a cost much less than the 90-100k per course. Eg: they show Harvoni (one of the drugs previously sought) as costing 26000 per…

Hilary Stace

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:20:03 +1300

Good to see Ed Gane on sceen. NZ has some outstanding clinicians working in the public health system. He is one.

Jim Cathcart

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:40:51 +1300

Watched it here in Vietnam when I heard Chris' story was going to be shown. Up this way, there are also generics crossing from India to Th Philippines because some of the obscene pricing issues they have.

Helga

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:08:17 +1300

Great post Russell – I probably won't watch the programme, but it's great to have discussion on the topic – not only not pushed by the drug companies, but not pushed by those who would wish to mess with Pharmac's decision-making. Or perhaps those two are the same thing?
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Daniel Carr

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:34:37 +1300

More excellent journalism, this time from a major tv channel. This is really something!

I would have liked to see more discussion about the intellectual property system. There is a tendency here to blame the company for essentially acting as they're required to by the system. It's not good enough…

Russell Brown

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:19:59 +1300

I think it helps just having a report that's not driven by drug company PR.

Jason Kemp

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:50:07 +1300

I watched the programme online. I wonder if the publicity will help or hinder. It will certainly improve awareness and probably demand for the drugs.

Public Address

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:50:07 +1300

Discussion from blog post.