This New Treatment Could Save the Lives of Babies. But It Costs $2.1 Million. Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Health Insurance and Managed Care, Genetic Engineering, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), your-feed-healthcare

By KATIE THOMAS from NYT Health https://nyti.ms/2K0Dndy
The price set by the Swiss drugmaker Novartis may be the world’s highest for a single treatment — prompting renewed debate about how society will pay for gene-therapy breakthroughs.