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Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

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Quereller@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That is not true. Small biotech usually cannot effort late stage development. They either just get buyed by big pharma. Or they licence the lead compound to big pharma and get royalties. Very few exemptions to this.

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be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I'll assume you know more about this than I do despite the lack of any citation.

I refuse to believe there's an ethically acceptable business justification for this ridiculous markup.

The entire healthcare industry in the US is built on a foundation of corporate greed. This is just one obvious example.

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- Quereller@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  At least they loose exclusivity after 15 -20 years and generics are usually much cheaper.
  
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