Eloralintide Dosages

[m100568]

I definitely do not consider them evil, they spent a lot of money for a very long time to develop these amazing drugs, that improve my quality of life, yes with the hope that they would make a pile of money,

In general, you are correct. But, here is what hangs in the balance. An estimated 40,000 Americans die from complications of obesity each year. The market is huge. EL could easily produce more, reduce their prices, help more people and still make a huge profit. Instead, they took the approach that there were plenty of rich people who were willing to pay top dollar, so we need to put the emphasis on maximizing profit rather than changing and saving lives. I am pro-business and pro-profit, so don't get me wrong. But, when you can get all your research money back, and still make massive amounts of money, this becomes a moral choice. EL made a choice. Maximize profits by helping people with money and let people without money get sick and die. Call it what you like. I call it evil.

 

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In general, you are correct. But, here is what hangs in the balance. An estimated 40,000 Americans die from complications of obesity each year. The market is huge. EL could easily produce more, reduce their prices, help more people and still make a huge profit. Instead, they took the approach that there were plenty of rich people who were willing to pay top dollar, so we need to put the emphasis on maximizing profit rather than changing and saving lives. I am pro-business and pro-profit, so don't get me wrong. But, when you can get all your research money back, and still make massive amounts of money, this becomes a moral choice. EL made a choice. Maximize profits by helping people with money and let people without money get sick and die. Call it what you like. I call it evil.

I think you're missing a zero in your quoted stat.

You say you're pro business, but it's evil for Lilly to set pricing as they see fit because they've made their research money back and make "massive amounts of money."

As time moved forward they've increasingly offered massive discount, subsidy, and other programs to reduce the cost from the oft reported "$1k+/month".

Actual numbers are impractical to know, but mid range estimates are ~$9B to bring Tirz, Reta, and Elora to market. Add another ~$1B for combining Elora to Tirz, more for Elora to Reta.

How much did profits from early Tirz go towards making Reta and Elora a rational business decision?

Without those "maximized profits" being a potential, what would have been the rationalization for the business decision to spend millions coming up with the idea of Tirz so they could spend billions to bring it to market?

All these evil profits.... do you think they increases or decreases the probability of the next "revolutionary breakthrough" for health management being sought, so they can seek those ridiculous profits?


The fact that people suffer from obesity related maladies does not conflate to duty of action from a private company to provide their product at any given price, or at all.