Ocasio-Cortez confronts CEO for nearly $2K price tag on HIV drug that costs $8 in Aus

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"You're the CEO of Gilead. Is it true that Gilead made $3 billion in profits from Truvada in 2018?" Ocasio-Cortez asked Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day.

"$3 billion in revenue," he clarified.

"The current list price is $2,000 a month in the United States, correct?" she asked, referring to Truvada.
"It's $1,780 in the United States," O'Day responded.

"Why is it $8 in Australia?" Ocasio-Cortez countered.

"Truvada still has patent protection in the United States and in the rest of the world it is generic," O'Day explained, adding, "It will be generically available in the United States as of

"I think it's important here that we notice that we the public, we the people, developed this drug. We paid for this drug, we lead and developed all the patents to create Prep and then that patent has been privatized despite the fact that the patent is owned by the public, who refused to enforce it," Ocasio-Cortez said.

“There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it and there’s no enforceable reason for it.”

https://flipboard.com/topic/patent/o...35/thehill.com

This is why the GOP and their lemmings attack her. She consistently exposes their puppet master's corruption and thereby theirs as well.

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By lying ?

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This is why the GOP and their lemmings attack her. She consistently exposes their puppet master's corruption and thereby theirs as well.

She's good at attacking but not actually doing anything. Maybe she learned the difference between revenue and profit from that hearing.