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by hollerith 1463 days ago
Which pills developed in the 50s cost much more in the US than in the rest of the world?
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Ask Martin Shkreli.
A cartoon villain, to be sure, and a legitimate target for public policy interventions, but pretty clearly not an indication of why US health care costs so much; he managed to price those drugs specifically because they were a corner-case for the pharma industry.