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Jan 01

My “Harder Than Diamonds” award goes to… Alexion Pharmaceuticals

There are currently over 80 Canadians suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease called PNH. This year all of the Canadian Provinces agreed to pay the $500,000 per patient per year (for the rest of their lives) that is being asked for a drug that will restore health and longevity to those patients.  Soliris is the world’s most expensive drug. The only thing harder than the accountant and/or CEO that can put that kind of a price on a human life is imagining what kind of production process could possibly cost that amount of money.