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Problem is the funding never gets passed on as a savings to the American consumer who needs the treatment.

• thereisnospork 2y ago
  The American consumer gets a treatment that didn't exist yesterday and whose IP will be free in ~15 years for their tax dollars. A pretty reasonable give and take on the face of it. (Not that polices to reduce the cost to Americans, especially relative to foreign markets, ought to be unpopular)
  • KumaBear 2y ago
    Other countries also get access at 1/3 the price.
    • jghn 2y ago
      > Other countries also get access at 1/3 the price. 1) Many other countries don't have the ass backwards healthcare system that we have 2) Then there are the poorer countries. It turns out that things like providing them cheap food & medicine manages to a) provide a source of soft power & influence in the world, and b) helps us by helping them by limiting the spread of various diseases and maladies