Blog #14

1) I'm planning on doing the stage of childhood and focus around multiple sclerosis treatment. The one I'm going be focusing on is Interferon-beta. Like how much it cost, or if it's paid through insurance. If it costs too much, will only the rich be able to cure their child? What about the not so rich people? What can they do for their kid. What company sells them and which ones makes them. Interferon-Beta

2) "The government plans to make interferon beta and glatiramer available to patients with multiple sclerosis through a risk sharing scheme, despite lack of evidence of cost effectiveness. Sudlow and colleagues argue that the money would be better spent on independent research"
From this, it seems like the government is trying to take the easy way out so they can use the money on "more important research" but the way they want to do it sounds risky.here

3) The drug, Interferon-beta is rather expensive. There was an incident where a person paid the money for the drug, yet instead it didn't do any effect, meaning that the drug failed. The company was requirement to reduce the price, yet they never did."the drug companies would have had to pay the NHS to use them to make them cost effective." here
Back to the expensiveness of the drug, at the beginning, the drug was around $10,000 per patient a year, but since it became a bit more expensive, $25,000 up to $60,000 or more! How are people with low money pay for it when their child is in need of medicine?here