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by rayiner 3024 days ago
But the patent on daraprim expired decades ago. It was a single source drug because there wasn’t enough money in the market for another manufacturer to make a competing alternative. There are something like 8,000 prescriptions a year.
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In which case that sounds like market failure to me, which is another excellent time for regulation. We do this all the time with other "natural monopolies".