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by m0zg 2301 days ago
$150K+/yr. OOF. On the positive side, 20 years from now these drugs will be dollar a bucket as generics. Thank god for capitalism.
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No, it won't. Look at inulin prices. Or pharma-bro's Daraprim.

That's what capitalism does to generics.

Not really. Regarding insulin, that's what _the lack of capitalism_ does to generics. You can't import insulin into the US, and that's why it's so expensive here.

Daraprim wasn't generic until literally 5 days ago: https://www.biospace.com/article/fda-approves-first-generic-...