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The active ingredient's $2 market price includes the markups for R&D, failed previous projects, etc that are inherent in drug development. Repackaging an existi
by leggomylibro 9y ago
The active ingredient's $2 market price includes the markups for R&D, failed previous projects, etc that are inherent in drug development. Repackaging an existing generic hardly merits the same.
- c3534l 9y ago> The active ingredient's $2 market price includes the markups for R&D Not if it's generic, it doesn't. The cost of R&D has to be paid off during the patent period. Also, to call it "repackaged" is disingenuous. The delivery method is what's being charged for.
- aisofteng 9y agoIt's not disingenuous, it's just (probably) incorrect. Why does "disingenuous" get used so much around here? It's almost never used correctly.
- c3534l 9y agoI felt like he was reframing things to the point where it was no longer true. I think he knows that the new version is an extended release injection (I mean, it was mentioned explicitly in the article), but he said "repackaged" for rhetorical reasons.