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And if the anticipated future profit-maximizing price of a new drug isn’t high enough, you don’t fund the R&D and the drug never gets invented.



Yeah. I hear Dr Salk died a multi-billionaire, right? You really need to understand the diminishing returns, when it comes to this issue.

Having $70k HepC healing drug is OK. Having daily medication that's $50 per dose is not, unless the target demographic is exceptionally small.




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