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by Nasrudith 2518 days ago
It fundamentally is about fairness albeit in a peripheral sense - the market doesn't exist in a vaccuum - those high prices depend upon granted monopoly rights and regimes which are a bargin wrongly conflated with property and treated like an entitlement instead of the contracts they are. Nothing is owned - only the ability to stop others from doing things. An unfair contract is increasingly likely to be ripped up because there is nothing more to be lost by doing so.

That people are flying abroad is the start of ripping up their local monopoly along with uncertifified online pharmacy importation and grey market sales - taking risks to avoid costs is a sign that the market /isn't/ bearing it.