We're talking market forces here. Yes, the drug companies will try to squeeze as many dollars out of the market as they can; the counterbalancing force is tha

We're talking market forces here. Yes, the drug companies will try to squeeze as many dollars out of the market as they can; the counterbalancing force is that if they get too greedy, someone else will enter the market and undercut them. The fact that entering the market is so bloody expensive is why drug companies can set their prices so high without provoking a new competitor into existence.