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.

• xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then there will be no new medicines, companies will not be able to afford to pay the scientists.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guess they’d be stuck on relying on research grants and finding cheaper ways to combat diseases

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    • FatCrab@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, they would just keep everything trade secret and we’d have no idea how to replicate the medicine.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then there will be no new medicines, companies will not be able to afford to pay the scientists.

    That would not be true if the government funded things.

    I really wish we didn’t let Capitalism control vital to our living services.

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