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Most prescribed drugs are generics that will cost you a couple bucks. The drugs advertised on TV are precisely the ones with high margins that support expensive
by LeegleechN 5y ago
Most prescribed drugs are generics that will cost you a couple bucks. The drugs advertised on TV are precisely the ones with high margins that support expensive customer acquisition efforts.
- to11mtm 5y agoYeah. New Drugs are 'new', have probably just gone through expensive R&D and Trial periods, so there is a need to recoup investment. Of course, there's the problem of when companies make a 'new' drug that is very similar to an existing drug/generic that already exists. A great example of that in my head is how Cymbalta is not that much different than Effexor.
- willcipriano 5y agoThe most egregious was when the CFC ban went into place and the non-CFC inhalers were all under patent again.