State attorneys general demand federal action to increase supply and cut cost of COVID drug remdesivir
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general today asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to invoke a federal patent law to increase supply and lower prices of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir.
Gilead charges $3,120 for a five-day course for patients with private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. Remdesivir supplies are"dangerously limited" and the price will"impede access to treatment" and strain state budgets, the attorneys general wrote in a letter to the federal agencies. "We cannot afford to leave the supply of this critical medication to chance and the whims of the marketplace when it was funded in part by taxpayer dollars," said Becerra, a Democrat.
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