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by rhuru 955 days ago
1. It is not the price of the pill. It is the price of the entire 14 day course. 2. There are only 500K or mothers who suffer from PPD each year in USA. May be 200K or so of them would actually be willing to take medicines. And if the course costs say $100 then it would be $20M in revenue. Do you really think it is possible to run it profitably while employing 100s of people making and testing and distributing these pills ? Especially given that infants are involved ?
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Now extrapolate for worldwide distribution and your math falls apart.

It's profiteering, plain and simple.

There's a lot of space between $100 and $16,000, a lot.