Probably not in America though.
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Prince only goes up and wage only goes down.
Well, wage goes up, but inflation goes up faster
Ooooorrr drug companies could raise the price a little and more than double their profits!
Wow! I can't wait! Oh wait, the prices won't change, but the drug companies will pocket the difference! Such a win for capitalism
Or, hear me out, we keep the same price and make more money
*we can now double the profits of costly cancer drug
This lede is insane. As if the price of a drug corresponds at all with production cost. Especially when so much research is publicly subsidized. Let me put this in simple terms the reason drugs are expensive is because of monopoly and IP patent warfare. Not because of how hard it is to make,