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The medical / pharma industry is not interested in cures for diseases; they only want lifelong treatments. True capitalists, seeking maximum profit.
by prirun 13y ago
The medical / pharma industry is not interested in cures for diseases; they only want lifelong treatments. True capitalists, seeking maximum profit.
- cma 13y agoWhat's the distinction? Whether they sell a thousand symptom suppression pills over a lifetime at $20 or 1 cure pill at $20,000 what does it matter? Are you saying people literally pay by pill count? Patents are monopolies, they don't charge the marignal production cost of one pill while they hold a patent, they charge what the market will pay.
- porlw 13y agoIt makes it easier to price discriminate between rich and poor customers.
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- tsotha 13y agoDo you have any evidence for this whatsoever, or is this just casual slander?