The high price of life-saving drugs has resulted in many deaths because they are beyond the capabilities of poor people to pay. If the price of a drug depended upon it's efficacy to keep people alive, it might be available more easily. Dead people, after all, cannot pay for drugs. If a person needed a drug to stay alive, payment for the drug could be tied to his earning ability and the drug could be dispensed at little or no cost originally. The longer he stayed alive, the more would be his possibility to pay for the real cost of the drug. There should be some kind of cutoff point for payment to prevent people from becoming slaves to the drug companies, but somehow, drugs should be more available to poor people.

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