If they couldn’t overcharge us for the drugs, they wouldn’t buy up the fucking patents in the first place. And why should they be allowed to buy the patents for life-saving drugs that we, the people, paid to fucking develop on the first place?
All health care and pharma CEOs need to be lined up against the fucking wall TBH. They’re traitors.
The pharma industry likes to defend its pricing by saying:
The second pill cost 25¢.
The first pill cost $800 million.
What they never actually say is that the US government (thereby the taxpayers) heavily subsidized most of that cost.
Big Pharma could use its own Mario Brother, just saying.
Even if we go by 0 subsidies as an argument, anything past around the 800 thousandth pill sold has already paid for itself and is now pure profit.
The argument deserves to burn alongside whoever uses it to extort people for life saving care.
Also most pharma research is done by public universities that private pharma companies then buy the rights to.
The clinicals tend to be ran by the companies pushing for go to market. Those also cost millions
Only because they see huge profits coming later.
If they couldn’t overcharge us for the drugs, they wouldn’t buy up the fucking patents in the first place. And why should they be allowed to buy the patents for life-saving drugs that we, the people, paid to fucking develop on the first place?
All health care and pharma CEOs need to be lined up against the fucking wall TBH. They’re traitors.
They can be. But often they aren’t fully self-funded.
Happy cake day.
Most? I’m incredulous but I don’t know the actual answer.
Brave to assume that only one country gives a subsidy.
Australia has the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that does the same thing.
I’m on board with Wario flat-out eating the next one.
I thought waluigi was going to do the wawawewa dance in their faces
Waluigi is King
Let’s-a go!