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Why the Most Expensive Drugs Are Often the Cheapest

A 2 million dollar gene therapy seems obscene until you calculate lifetime care. Discover how the QALY framework proves a cure is the ultimate bargain.

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A $2 million drug sounds obscene until you price out the alternative: 20 years of specialist visits, hospitalizations, and maintenance therapy totaling over $3.8 million. The cure is actually the barg

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