[vineetdhanawat]

"The Bayer price of Rs 34,11,898 per year ($69,000) is more than 41 times the projected average per capita income for India in 2012, shattering any measure of affordability." This is good enough for any govt to act so and rightly done as well!

Also "6% royalty on net sales every quarter to Bayer" that isnt all unfair

[tomjen3]

Bayer is in it to make money, so presumably the reason the Indian government forced this deal is that Bayer would lose money under it.

So no, it isn't fair.

[Yeroc]

Keep in mind that the government did NOT force Bayer to manufacture the drug, only to license it. I don't believe Bayer had any interest in pursuing the Indian market whatsoever since it was priced well beyond what the average person could afford.

On the question of fairness: Is it fair for people to die because they can't afford a life-saving drug? I'm sure that's what it boiled down to for the Indian government.

According to my math if Bayer priced the drug over here the same way they did in India relative to average per-capita income the drug would cost around $1.5 million per year. Would that change your perspective?

[vineetdhanawat]

Maybe, who knows. Bayer reported the price as part of Research Costs etc, maybe true! But at the end Question stands - "Was the price fair?" I dont think so!