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by fabian2k 729 days ago
To be fair you have to include research costs here, which is very tricky as most drugs won't make it that far and still cost some money for research. So even including the development cost of the drug itself is not the whole story as it would not take into account the other drugs that failed.

I'm not saying that Ozempic specifically isn't overpriced, I don't know that. But production cost isn't the only factor for new drugs (it's somewhat different if we talk about older drugs/generics).