Data Access Issue

For those of you that ever wonder how easy it is for big technology companies to get to internal data, the WSJ blog highlights an issue that Vioxx litigants are having with Express Scripts.  They want to charge for the data access since it will take 420 hours (or one person for over 10 weeks fulltime) to pull the data at a cost of $150/hr for a total cost of $63,000.  [Not a bad job for someone…$300K per year to run a bunch of queries.]