Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s $84,000 Treatment Questioned By U.S. Lawmakers

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Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) is being asked by U.S. House Democrats to explain how the company set its $84,000 price for hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi. The lawmakers also asked Gilead Chief Executive Officer John Martin to explain what is being done to make sure the medicine gets into the hands of low-income patients, especially in government-run health programs. “Our concern is that a treatment will not cure patients if they cannot afford it,” Democratic representatives Henry Waxman of California, Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, and Diana DeGette of Colorado, wrote in a letter sent yesterday.

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