Outsourcing and Subcontracting at Colleges and Universities: What You Need to Know. Many colleges and universities across the country are outsourcing or subcontracting, to private companies, various institutional functions and services in an effort to cut costs, and/or improve efficiency.
Hepatitis C, which afflicts some 150 million people globally, often without symptoms for years, can cause fatigue and fever, cirrhosis or liver cancer. The pill, known as Sovaldi, or generically as sofosbuvir, costs $84,000 for a standard 12-week course of treatment.
Hepatitis C treatment has gone from a miserable process of daily injections to simple daily pills in recent years. But the cost of these new pills are exorbitant. One of the first companies to hit the mark with oral treatments, Gilead Sciences, offers two drugs for hepatitis C: Harvoni costs $95,500 for 12 weeks, and Sovaldi, costs $84,000. Thatâs $1,000 per pill.