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jmowreader

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20. Oh, you're leaving parts out...

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 03:00 AM

Mar 2015

The company that makes those pills makes two different ones.

The first is Sovaldi. It costs $1000/pill, is taken for either 12 or 24 weeks depending on the variety of Hep C you have, and is taken in conjunction with one or two other drugs. (Go to http://www.gilead.com and learn more.)

The other is Harvoni, which is Sovaldi PLUS the other drug it needs to work. This is even more than Sovaldi (which is priced at highway robbery levels already) and is taken for as many weeks.

And is it just me, or is there a certain creepiness about a company that makes a drug to treat a disease a lot of fundies think is "God's punishment for sin" naming itself after the country "The Handmaid's Tale" is set in?

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