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by ffgjgf1 720 days ago
> In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales,

I’m not sure that’s strictly true at least when it comes to the most expensive/newly developed drugs:

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-medici...

Doesn’t seem that massively different from the relationship between insurance companies and drug companies in the US.

> In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales

Interestingly enough it seems like the poorer Central/East European countries end up paying more than the richer ones.