[beej71]

[Not disagreeing with your post, for the record.]

> It takes a lot of money to bring a drug to market. Those costs have to be recovered and there has to be a net profit

A friend of mine who works in this industry explained how they come up with drug pricing and whether they decided to bring a drug to market. It's pure capitalism, of course--and why shouldn't it be?

It's a bummer, though, to think of the drugs that could have really, really helped some people but weren't lucrative enough to bother selling. Oh well!

> or no one would do it.

On the other hand, that's sort of like saying "There has to be a net profit in going to the moon or no one would do it" or "there has to be a net profit in selling flood insurance or no one would do it". Neither of those net a profit, but sometimes does it all the same.