Gilead has developed the first drug since penicillin to cure a major disease and people think the price tag is too expensive.<p>In the modern world, it&#x27;s not ideal to create a drug to cure something. Once people are cured they no longer need your drug. That&#x27;s why we have so many drugs like Lipitor and Viagra that treat symptoms but do not cure.<p>The &quot;problem&quot; with Sovaldi&#x2F;Harvoni is that the patient only takes it for ~90 days, and then they&#x27;re cured.<p>The drugs are cheaper than regular treatment of Hep C - which ends in liver transplant. Do people think the price tag was just random? No, it&#x27;s because this is a price at which the taxpayer saves money by curing the disease vs. blood transfusions, liver transplants, lost economic value, etc.<p>Not to mention that the waitlist for a liver transplant is getting halved as we cure Hep C.<p>As we slam Gilead the other really evil pharma companies like Pfizer are taking notes and patting themselves on the back for creating drugs whose end goal is to addict the consumer.