if if you re a boston fan, you re saying, i want to get down to houston. going to cost you more than 400 bucks just to get a plane ticket down and back look at this. we have a hotel here. uple miles away from the stadium. you have to go the day before, definitely to want stay the night. look at that, that s over a grand right there on the hotel room. of course you ve got to get to the stadium too. uber for 13 bucks. variety of seating options just to get in the building. for a nosebleed in the upper deck. almost 5 grand. you want to sit on the sideline, going this far, you might as well side in the sideline, over $10,000 if you want one ticket in the stadium. of course, you also to want eat while you re at the game. nachos, hot dog, one beer, 21 bucks for that. and some change. and of course, you ve got to get a souvenir while you re there, official super bowl hat with the logo. that s going to set you back 30 bucks. add all of this together, that s going to cost you $11,652.35.
research. joining me now are cnbc s meg terrell and dr. cory a. bear, a practicing physician and professor at louisiana state university health sciences center. so, meg, you got a chance to interview him. you know this world, obviously, a little bit better than i do. so, he s not putting he s saying the price will come down now a little bit. we were at 13 bucks. now we re at $7.550. do we have a sense where in that range he can still make a profit but it s still affordable? you can presume he could have made a profit at the old price. but they bought the drug for $50 million to $60 million. after spending that much money to buy it, they had to raise the price to recoup the cost. so the old company, it was reported that it only took about $1 to manufacture each one of these pill. so they were making a profit at $13.50. so it s a little curious that he s reversing course today, when he was so solid yesterday, saying, no, he s not going to lower the price of this drug. and he was sayi
way out of it see, and i guess this happened in one other case like this, is maybe there s so much negative publicity around this, that he s able to sell it back, we can sort of all forget that it happened in the first place. is there any possibility of that happening? folks were calling for, you know, different foundations to come step in, like the gates foundation which works in hiv and infectious disease to come in and undercut this guy and make this drug. but there are questions about how widely distributed this drug can be, so generic drugmakers could potentially come in and make copies of it. when you have this kind of monopoly on the system is there the possibility of a generic drug? there could be the possibility of a generic drug, because this drug was approved in 1953, so it doesn t have patent protection anymore. but there s a question of is there enough of this drug that can get distributed freely enough for generic drugmakers to come and make a copy of it to sell.
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i talk about doughnuts. i never get a chance to eat them. we have a big weekend coming up in phoenix. nascar in town. that s a big deal. but fans can look forward to a new treat that s sure to have their engines racing. it s called the carburetor crunch. it s a deep-fried peanut and put butter and jelly sandwich, with captain crunch cereal and covered with bacon crumbs and banana and caramel drizzle. what s your guess? how much calories? our director says ten. he s being kind. 900 calories. what? each one of these things is 7 bucks. a double-order for 13 bucks. what a deal there. there you go. you know what the theme music should be for this? i m listening. peanut butter and jelly. peanut butter jelly. do you know that song? and a baseball bat? good. we got the mix coming up. i can use a baseball bat around here. some days. we got one. you re a flight attendant. you think they re cranky sometimes?