TIL 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 make

Valuy@lemmy.zip · edit-2 23 hours ago

TIL 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 make

HubertManne@piefed.social · 11 hours ago

I worked in blood diagnostics at one point and the markup was crazy. It was like the manfacturer would make it for pennies a test and sell it for a dollar a test and the lab would charge ten dollars which would result in a fee from the provider of a hundred

TIL 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 make

TIL 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 make

How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business