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Everything is relative. The first generic they're launching at $20 a tablet: Albendazole, retails for less than 50 cents a tablet in India.
by woadwarrior01 6y ago
Everything is relative. The first generic they're launching at $20 a tablet: Albendazole, retails for less than 50 cents a tablet in India.
- aiven 6y agocompare price of labor between usa and india. Outsourcing everything to asia will be beneficial for company (and probably consumers since lower prices), but not for americans who work for cuban rn
- markdown 6y agoThis isn't the garment industry. Labour costs in drug manufacturing (as opposed to drug development) are negligible.
- georgeecollins 6y agoPeople in the US can afford to pay a lot more for healthcare than in India. They just can't afford to pay twice as much as other industrialized countries.
- retrac 6y agoMebendazole (functionally equivalent to albendazole, as I understand it) is 4 USD a tablet here in Ontario. So even with this you're still paying 3x as much.
- flowerlad 6y agoClose to $0.03 USD: https://www.sastimedicine.com/salt-alternatives/5785-736518/Albendazole-400mg-Price-Dosage-Side-Effects-and-Generic-Alternatives-its-cost https://www.sastimedicine.com/salt-alternatives/5785-736518/...
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- asdfadsfgfdda 6y agoI doubt $.50 is the true cost, there's a program to donate millions of tablets to developing countries: https://mectizan.org/partners/glaxosmithkline/ https://mectizan.org/partners/glaxosmithkline/