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if you found a cure for cancer, how much would you charge?

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I'd like to give it away, but realistically if I did find the cure for cancer, greed would overcome me. It wouldnt feel right...
::goes and sits in corner and ponders life::
 
enough to maximze my profits depending on supply and demand.
For example, AIDS drugs are prohibitively expensive as both supply and demand is low.
 
I would personally give it away for free. I have a friend who's 16 and she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I wouldn't care about fame or fortune, as long as the lives of loved ones are spared.
 
Originally posted by: five40
Whatever it costs to make plus enough extra to give me a real nice living. I'd give it away free to those who don't have enough money to get it.
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exactly...sliding scale :thumbsup:
 
i would do it for free.... companies would sponsor me, and soo many people would send me gift money anyway as a thank you. i'd be rich
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
free
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Ideally that would be the case, though I couldn't see myself being able to charge nothing, since people put millions of dollars into research, and nothing has come out of it yet.

If the cure just popped out of my ass and didn't cost me a dime...I would say that I would give it away free. As long as I don't have to keep popping the cure out of my ass...
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Let me pose a question (call me the devil's advocate), but would it be such a good idea to have a cure for cancer given to everybody? As sad as death and especially premature or slow/agonizing deaths are, death is a natural and needed part of this world. If you start curing everything that can cause people to die, overpopulation will get much much worse in a short period of time.

Remember, don't shoot the messenger 😛
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Don't you think though that if cancer was cured, some other new disease would pop up to take it's place as people started living longer to catch it? Isn't cancer still a relatively new disease, mainly because in the past, people simply didn't live long enough to get it, and instead died of things that are easy to cure/prevent now?
 
Originally posted by: swtethan
i would do it for free.... companies would sponsor me, and soo many people would send me gift money anyway as a thank you. i'd be rich
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hahah yeah companies woudl sponser you. sure they would. same liek peiple would give you money hahahah
 
Sliding scale - I'd charge the people that could pay, I'd give it to those that couldn't.

Illegal in the states, I'd just sell the first couple hundred doses for a huge amount of cash and buy an island in international waters and form a micronation - "Cureforcancera" or somesuch, get a few UN countries to recognize me in exchange for some doses, then set up shop.
 
Overpopulation's cure is a whole lot uglier you know. Imagine taking a down syndrome child (definately incurable for the forseeable eon) for execution while the mother stands and screams. It's the flip side you haven't had to see yet thanks to madmen like Hitler. You may not be able to prioritize because the whole concept seems morally wrong, but it won't stop others when the time comes. Retards, crippleborn, and Unilingual Mexican Aliens would be my first picks. Followed by Pro-Lifeys and famous rappers. 😛

Luckily we've finally fed Nature enough heat with our lets-cure-everything-that-kills overpopulation's pollution to make Cat 5 Hurricanes. You may be spared through self solving problem. 😀
 
I'd charge a lot at first and then a lot less shortly after. If you make $50 million in the first month (probably not that hard) and then reduce the cost to however much it took to produce the drug, then I'd say you could retire happily
 
I would be generous, yet realistic with it. I would charge people reasonably, but if someone who could not afford it came about, they would get treatment for free. Of course I would want to be justly compensated for such a great feat, but I would not be too greedy about it.
 
I would start my own country on an island to distribute the cure and charge where price and demand intersect...............
 
Cost + $100. This way I get paid and people can still afford it. I'd have special days, kind of like Jurassic Park, where people could get it for $25. This is a good idea, let me get working on the cure now.
 
All those people who said "free" i don't believe you for a second.
There aren't that many saints in the world.
Dispite how much pocket change you would give to the guy ringing the bell at christmas time, you aren't going to be the patron saint of the cure for cancer.

I would make a fortune and i wouldn't have to gouge on the price because every person on the planet would want to buy.
There is a big difference in making something affordable and giving it away for free.
 
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