Dismay at lottery for $2.1m drug to treat children with muscle-wasting disease

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Experts criticise potential emotional effect of draw to win doses of lifesaving Zolgensma

A multinational drug company that has put a $2.1m price tag on a new drug for a muscle-wasting disease that affects children is to offer 100 free doses a year through a global lottery.

 

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All medicine should be free for those who need it !!!!

Yep, this is what happens with socialized medicine. Rationing of expensive procedures and boards of bureaucrats deciding who gets to live or die. A market-based healthcare system that encourages innovation always works better than government-run health care.

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