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In response to "Martin Shkreli's $750 life-saving drug recreated by high school students for $2 (oops!) -- (link*)" by Andie

We just accept that medicine costs a lot of money. It's really sad. -- nm

Posted by con_carne Dec 1 '16, 11:38

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Of course, that $2 doesn't include actually making it in pill form, distributing it, and getting approvals from all of the government entities... -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:40 16
- As well as the years of research that go into developing a drug. They just recreated work that likely took years and hundreds of millions of - Krusty Dec 1, 11:52 4
  - the drug already existed when he bought it and upped the price too. he didn't develop it. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 11:54 3
    - Though they still had to pay for the rights to it. -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:18
    - True, I forgot that part. -- nm - Krusty Dec 1, 12:15
    - plus he already had a company to do the manufacturing. His gouging was purely for profit -- nm - decline Dec 1, 11:56
- Because that's what was driving up the cost of the original, right... -- nm* - znufrii Dec 1, 11:43
- Food is pretty cheap. Why is food so cheap and medicine so expensive? There's no reason for this. -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 11:42 1
  - Because food literally grows on trees. -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:45
- Interestingly, just yesterday the House passed a FDA streamlining bill that should get signed. -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 11:42 2
  - Hope this works. Typically when FHWA streamlines something it takes twice as long. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:44 1
    - "To get approved you now need to dig a stream and line it with your product first. DON'T ASK WHY!!!" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:04
- (Or the required quality control.) -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:41 4
  - (And my point isn't that whatever they're charging is justified, just that it's not apples to apples. It's more apples to apple pies.) -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:46 3
    - So, why are they charging $750 for an apple pie, when apples literally grow on trees? -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:52 2
      - "And my point isn't that whatever they're charging is justified" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:52 1
        
        Eh, I prefer blackberry pie anyway. - znufrii Dec 1, 11:55

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