This is $1 million of the drug Eyelea

Eyelea is used to treat macular degeneration, a disease of the eye. This is about 500 vials of it, so about $2,000 a dose. There is a generic available, Avastin, that costs about $80 a dose. 

This is a stack that a Buffalo ophthalmologist made using the empty vials he accumulated over about two years. 

Here's what you can do with $1 million: 

• You could hire 20 substance abuse counselors for a year. 
• You could completely immunize 1,000 children. 
• You could feed 300,000 meals to homeless people.
• You could house 200 homeless people for a year. 
• It's 50,000 bags of groceries. 
• It's Head Start for 200 kids for a year. 
• It would cure 50 people of Hepatitis C.
• It's prenatal care for 1,000 babies. 

 

Merry Christmas. 

Comments

[Daniel Metrick]

You could buy 12,500 vials of the generic, treating 25 times as many people (and you'd have 25 vial trees next Christmas). You could still buy the original 500 vials and have 960,000 of the million left over, only putting a 4% dent in any off the projects above.