Valuy@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoTIL that cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling products of all time. It cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to makewww.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1592arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1587arrow-down1external-linkTIL that cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling products of all time. It cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to makewww.propublica.orgValuy@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square89fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWhitebrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down2·edit-22 days agoEven 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.
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.