If there is a 20 year patent on these drugs then "Humira
If there is a 20 year patent on these drugs then "Humira" will be priced out of reach of the general public until 2023 which was a huge profit taking window for congressional representatives. "Skyrizi" which is new this year in 2019 is priced around "$15,000" for a one year kit which is 5 or 6 shots. "Humira" is injection and pill form. "Skyrizi" gets rid of 90% of psoriasis with the first two shots which are 4 weeks apart. "Skyrizi" will stay priced very high until about 2039 if it has a 20 year patent. When Humira comes off of patent in 2023 it will send the manufacturing of it to the generic drug companies and drop the price to market value which may mean everyone on Medicaid and Medicare might have a chance to be treated with it. All biological drug manufacturers will be forced to drop their prices also to a reasonable level because ALL doctors will direct their patents to Humira leaving other drug companies with a product that cannot be sold because of price. In "India" a generic form of "Humira" is being manufactured and the monthly cost is only $400 which is only down a few hundred from the discounted prices in the U.S.. After "Humira" goes off patent in the U.S. even the generic "India" brand will fall in price even further. I read it may cost a drug company over a billion dollars to develop a drug but this is "Bull Hicky". For one think a drug company isn't a drug company without a team of researchers. In fact a drug company is nothing but researchers. A drug company after it starts making a profit from the drugs they produced in the first place has to budget for a permanent research team to create future drug profits. The research team gets its paychecks from previous released drug sales always and forever and NO recouping of costs for the development of a new drug is ever needed. A drug company is just a huge laboratory full of scientists that get paid regularly to create new drugs and do constant experiments. No extra financial outputs are going on to drive drug prices through the roof. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10287256
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