How an $84,000 drug got its price: ‘Let’s hold our position … whatever the headlines’

Washington Post

1 December 2015 - Gilead Sciences executives were acutely aware in 2013 that their plan to charge an exorbitantly high price for a powerful new hepatitis C drug would spark public outrage, but they pursued the profit-driven strategy anyway, according to a Senate Finance Committee investigation report released Tuesday.

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