If you take drugs that have been introduced since then — linezolid or daptomycin — those are significantly more expensive, so to a world that has been used to paying 10 cents a day for antibiotics, the idea of paying 180 dollars per day seems like a lot.
Los fármacos introducidos desde entonces —la linezolida y la daptomicina— son mucho más caros. Para un mundo en el que se acostumbra a pagar 10 centavos al día por antibiótico, la idea de pagar 180 dólares al día parece demasiado caro.