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Old 01-31-2017, 07:42 PM  
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
A patent drug costs $1 a pill to make when you amortize the R&D cost.
The government of Euro country demands you sell it for $0.50 a pill because they want a low price. If that is really so they should tell them to go die.

Maybe, big pharma is just full of shit -- they argue that the pill costs $1 when maybe it really costs $0.16 and they are selling it for $3 in the USA and for $.50 in Euroland?

We do need to investigate this thoroughly.
More likely would be if the pill cost 16 cents to make and they sold it for $3 in Europe they would sell the same pill for $30 or more in the US.

There is a cancer treatment that costs the manufacturer about $600 to make and they sell it for $80,000. When asked if they would consider lowering the price so more people could afford it the CEO of the company replied with, "Why would we do that?"
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