At six months pregnant, Sonja Lee Finnegan flew from Switzerland to France to buy $20,000 worth of drugs from a person she had never met. The drug she was after, Trikafta, is legal in Switzerland ...
Trikafta, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is, as its name suggests, a combination of three drugs. It works for 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis, and will be priced at $311,000 per year.