It really disturbs me that things like this happen. I just heard a commentary on Marketplace about the immorally ridiculous price Genentech is charging for a new drug for cancer: $100,000 per year. Yes. You read well… that’s how it is.
How many people can benefit from such an expensive drug? What point is there in having a cure for cancer, when you cannot afford it… I mean, not afford it not by a few pennies, but because it costs 2-3 times as much as you make in a year? It’s almost like saying: “Just die, you poor bastard! But before you do, know that there was a cure for what you had.” Very, very sad… Moral values and an emphasis on social wellbeing definitely have abandoned many corporations, and Genentech definitely seems to be among them.