[stmfreak]

Right! A healthcare system with a 100% cure rate for a 100% fatal disease. Let’s complain about the cost of this miracle.

Start mucking about with the price of this service and the next thing you know, hospitals are not stocking enough doses or the Pharma Corp has trouble recruiting volunteers to make immunoglobulin. Then you get bit by a rabid dog and go to the ER only to find out they gave their last dose to some kid yesterday and the next ration delivery is weeks away.

Miracles cost money. These people are bickering about a $20k bill when their alternative was to get their papers in order and pick out $10k in funeral arrangements.

[maxerickson]

You can make that argument for basically any amount.

What's your argument for why it isn't priced close to cost when it the treatment is more than 100 years old?

[hiyer]

The rabies vaccine is available everywhere and it's probably not this costly anywhere except in US. I got bitten by a stray dog in India a few years back. 4 shots for rabies + one for tetanus cost me less than Rs. 5000 (~$70) in total, including the cost of administering the shots.