No, that's not what I'm claiming. I'm claiming that pharmaceutical companies wanted a way to increase profits. They concluded that if they raised prices that

No, that's not what I'm claiming. I'm claiming that pharmaceutical companies wanted a way to increase profits. They concluded that if they raised prices that would be bad PR because of the poorer nations that couldn't afford it and they would be seen as villains. Yet, the US had the potential to pay more. So they found a way to go right down the middle and lobbied congress hard to pass those laws. Now they get to be the benevolent rich guys who get to prattle about how many doses they donate globally and how cheap they can make the pills in the lesser developed nations while simultaneously ripping off US citizens to cover all that, and more.