OK, let me be a devil&#x27;s advocate for a minute, before we get the pitchforks once again. Let&#x27;s remember this:<p>&gt; Gilead Science was first out the gate, bringing the new hep C drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi to market in 2014 and 2015, respectively. And they worked great: More than 90 percent of patients taking the new drugs saw the hep C virus wiped out in three months, and without the side effects that made interferon treatments so intolerable.<p>So, Gilead is exactly the company that created these drugs from the very beginning. I&#x27;m looking at it this way: in 2013 (situation A), there was no cure (&quot;cure&quot; is a simplification, of course, but for this kind of analysis it&#x27;s not an important detail.). In 2016 (situation B), there is a cure, but it costs $86k.<p>Now, the moral question here is very simple: when you change the world (as Gilead did) from situation A to situation B, is it net good or net evil deed? In which world of these two would you prefer to live?