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by spacenick88 2649 days ago
But Ibuprofen isn't necessary for most of its users survival and is still much cheaper. More importantly, with both a social safety net and public health care close to no one in Germany will die because they could not afford medical care. So you're comparing a $10 drug that most people take against head ache, cramps or light pain with a drug that, where its unavailability will kill many diabetes patients within weeks or months.