Chapter 674: Expensive Medicine
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Chapter 674: Expensive Medicine
The next day, Ye Hao woke up in his apartment and started his day with washing and cooking.
"It feels different to have a man at home. I don't have to eat the instant noodle breakfast made by my sister anymore." Song Xiaoyue sat excitedly on a chair, eating the sumptuous breakfast in front of her eyes.
"I heard it. Don't you think my cooking is unpalatable!"
Song Ying walked down the stairs, she still likes to wear that outfit, black and white uniform and black silk.
Although it remains the same, it is so attractive in Ye Hao's eyes.
Feeling that hungry wolf-like gaze, Song Ying knew who it was without thinking too much.
She didn't pay attention to others, and threw a destructive death light over.
Ye Hao turned his head with a smile, drinking milk and watching TV.
"Where are Xueyao and Qianyi, and who else?" Song Ying had to admit that the man's breakfast was still so delicious no matter how many times she ate it.
"They have already eaten and went out. It seems that something happened recently. Xiaoxiao is still sleeping, this slob will pull her down immediately. Sister Yawen has also gone out." Ye Hao watched Song Ying eat with an arc.
Because of Song Xiaoyue's illness, Song Ying found an opportunity to move in some time ago. After all, the renovated apartment has a lot of rooms, so two more people are fine.
And Ye Hao is also very happy to live under the same roof as Song Ying.
[Now is the morning news time in Haicheng, first I will introduce you the main content of this program]
[Xiangdu's economy has developed rapidly due to several newly established government-supported projects in recent months. The stock index has increased by more than 20%, and the domestic stock index has continued to rise]
[Multiple civil forces in the Middle East have exchanged fire recently, and all parties are still negotiating]
[The exorbitant price of medicine in the Jiangnan area is further fermented, and nearly 100,000 patients gathered to the governments of various places to request the government to issue policies]
During this period of time, Ye Hao didn't watch the news very much. He felt that there were quite a lot of things happening in the world, and there was hardly a moment of cessation.
"That's right. Xueyao and Qianyi should go out so early because of the sky-high price of medicine." Song Ying said while eating a bun and pointing at the TV.
"Exorbitantly priced medicine?" Ye Hao looked at Song Ying in confusion.
Song Ying briefly told Ye Hao about this matter.
It turned out to be a type of bone cancer, which is extremely difficult to treat, and there is a possibility of multiple recurrences after surgery. However, a few years ago, an international pharmaceutical giant company developed a drug that can alleviate this disease, and even make the patient lifelong. No recurrence, prolong the life of the patient, but it needs to be taken for life.
This is good news for the majority of patients, but unexpectedly, the price of a bottle of this medicine is as high as 100,000 yuan!
And if you take it according to the amount, you need to eat one bottle a month, which means that it is nearly one million a year!
Ordinary families can't afford it at all. They can only sell their houses to survive, borrow money everywhere, and bring down the whole family.
At the beginning, most people just endured, but this tolerance has a limit.
Until recently, a researcher of the company suddenly revealed inside information that the total development cost of this drug was a total of one billion US dollars, which took five years.
But after this drug came out, in just three or four years, this company has made a profit of 100 billion US dollars from this drug!
According to the International Drug Patent Protection Law, the patent protection period for these drugs is 20 years. If the current fees charged by this company are used, it will earn 100 billion dollars in three to four years, and at least 500 billion U.S. dollars in 20 years!
The net profit is five hundred times higher than the cost!
This has completely exceeded the range that the people can bear. When the news came out, people in most parts of the world were boiling and strongly protested against this unreasonably high price of medicine.
People in the medical industry in many countries protested to the United Nations against the unreasonable pricing.
But this company completely ignores it, because there is no other drug on the market that can replace it, and if a country blatantly allows the emergence of generic drugs, then this country will be pushed into the limelight of public opinion, which may lead to being banned by many international pharmaceutical companies. Enterprises are blacklisted, and new drugs are banned.
That's the way the pharmaceutical giants have always been.
So so far, several countries can only negotiate with that company, but the company's attitude is still very tough, and the price will not be lowered during the patent period.
"Five hundred times the net profit. This company is really making money with no conscience." Ye Hao looked at the TV screen with a sneer.
At this moment, news about the drug was just broadcast on the TV screen.
It is an agent of the company located in the Jiangnan area, wearing a suit and a kind smile on his face.
"The price of our medicines is absolutely reasonable. So please trust us and don't buy those fake medicines. We can't guarantee the ingredients of fake medicines. If something goes wrong, it will be a disaster for patients."
"This price is obviously unreasonable. Although medicine is an industry with huge profits, there is nothing wrong with making money. But with a profit of 500 times, this is simply counting money with your eyes closed." Song Xiaoyue was also very angry.
"Okay. We can't control these things, hurry up and eat, and I will go to school with you after dinner."
Zhao Yanting came out of the bathroom and urged Song Xiaoyue and Ye Hao.
"Sister Ting, ask me for another two days of vacation." Ye Hao picked up the computer next to him and began typing on his fingers.
"What are you doing? How long have you been absent from class, you..." Zhao Yanting walked up to Ye Hao, just about to reprimand him.
But Ye Hao's computer screen was full of information about the sky-high price of medicine.
An idea came to Zhao Yanting's mind, could it be that he...
Impossible, no matter how powerful he is in this kind of thing, it is impossible for him to intervene.
"Okay. I'll give you a few days. It's mid-April now, and the college entrance examination is about 50 days away. Don't make trouble for me." Zhao Yanting agreed to Ye Hao for some reason.
Perhaps in her heart she also hoped that her thought just now was true, and this man was full of miracles.
After that, Song Ying and others left one after another.
Ye Hao was the only one left in the apartment.
He stared fixedly at the screen, the information on it had changed from sky-high priced medicine to the bone cancer information, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
[System task: Calm down the sky-high drug scandal this time. Reward: A random lucky draw package. 】
There have been a lot of lucky draw rewards recently.
Ye Hao glanced at the name of the international pharmaceutical company.
It is an international pharmaceutical company in the United States, and it is one of the giants of international pharmaceutical companies, Cide Company.
Ye Hao looked at this company. In fact, there is nothing wrong with making money. It is understandable for you to spend money on research and development of drugs to make some money, but this is too ugly.
Five hundred times?
Then don't blame me for giving you a drudgery.
[Exchange skill: Pharmacy. Spend skill points: 40]
【Insufficient skill points】
loan!
[Current arrears of 10 skill points]
Since Ye Hao's system was upgraded to 3.0, his total loanable amount has increased to 200 skill points.
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