Latif Nasser

Like, how good does a treatment have to be for you to say this is worth the price that it's been set at?

I don't think we reject it out of hand, but I don't think... I got into this a bit with Leonard.

In the case of Zaltrap, they said, all right, 42 days, that much money, we're not going to do it.

But would it have been different if it was 50 days or 100?

Is that enough?

I'm sure you want to be talking in years, but I guess the question is, like, what would be a... Is there a magic line for you?

I can't personally determine it for everybody.

I wouldn't presume to try.

But ultimately, as a society, we're going to have to reach an understanding of what that cut point is because we can't afford not to.

And the question that sort of bubbles out of this conversation is, what is one more year or one more month or one more day of life worth to us?

Are we willing to pay $1,000 for an extra day of life?

Well, what about $100,000 for an extra day of life?

You know, people like to say, yeah, so what's the value of a human life?

And the answer is, boy, that's a complicated question, but a really important one.

Because nobody thinks it's infinite.

He said that, and I was like, okay, it's not zero and it's not infinite.

Is there an answer, like, in the middle?

And so I started looking around.

I don't know.

I guess I was wondering, has anyone actually thought about this?