Pluristem Therapeutics Inc (PSTI)

[skitahoe]

I agree that's what it should be about, the problem is that drug companies who wish to be paid for what they're providing must provide information about what the actual cost of production is. Companies refuse to divulge that information, so they either don't participate, or they give their drug away. A better way needs to be found to pay these companies without forcing them to do what they're completely unwilling to do.

PSTI may have millions of doses available, I don't know, but if they do, I'd like to see the Govt. say, let us buy 100K doses for $1 billion, a price that should be below what their retail price will be, but sufficient to make them whole for making the drug. If we need more, we will purchase more on the same terms. Of course the same terms should be available to Govts. around the world.

Now is not the time for negotiations over what price is fair to save a life, if the drug works, enough should be paid to give the company value, but the key is getting it to patients ASAP. As I see it, every patient on a ventilator plus those the doctors believe could require a ventilator in days should get the drug, if 100K doses isn't sufficient, do it again immediately.

Gary