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If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.

• hawkice 7y ago
  Intense regulatory barriers. For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-healthcaristan-ssr/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...
  • listsfrin 7y ago
    What do we understand from this?
    • hawkice 7y ago
      Probably that if someone wants to make cheap lifesaving medicine they should have an easy way to do that instead of a Kafkaesque hellscape to navigate, but I'm not sure that insight generalizes beyond "make good things easy".
      • listsfrin 7y ago
        We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.
        • peteradio 7y ago
          Thats 99% profit chucklehead.