I think the government should put a value on every life (or quality adjusted life year, whatever), and offer to pay that much for any drug that saves lives.<p>From that perspective, $84k per life saved doesn&#x27;t sound that unreasonable, and creates a huge incentive to develop similar drugs in the future.<p>But I don&#x27;t think valuing every life at $84k would be sustainable. And why should the drug company itself get to determine the price, with no upper bound?