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People are looking at that already, believe it or not. Since it takes a number of years to see the benefit of curing HCV, it makes sense to spread the payments out.

The interesting thing is that Sovaldi is not more expensive than earlier therapies (last generation therapies were around $85K). The issue is that Sovaldi is so good that everyone wants to take it now, where before, very few patients were willing to put up with the old therapies.



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