The West Wing had a good quote on this: TOBY The pills cost 'em four cents a unit to make. JOSH You know that's not true. The second pill cost 'em four cent

The West Wing had a good quote on this: TOBY The pills cost 'em four cents a unit to make. JOSH You know that's not true. The second pill cost 'em four cents; the first pill cost 'em four hundred million dollars. If you want to step up and by the first pill I'm sure they won't have a problem bringing down the costs. It cost them 11 billion to buy the company which did the R&D for this drug.