Miracle drugs like penicillin, insulin, and salbutamol that have saved millions of lives were all discovered/purified outside the US. Still, I expect the US charges more for each of these drugs than the countries that actually developed them.
The ‘Americans are martyrs’ idea of the silly cost of the US system doesn’t hold water. The pharmaceutical companies are just greedy, and politicians are in their pockets.
It helps offset the costs of healthcare in the rest of the world
Miracle drugs like penicillin, insulin, and salbutamol that have saved millions of lives were all discovered/purified outside the US. Still, I expect the US charges more for each of these drugs than the countries that actually developed them.
The ‘Americans are martyrs’ idea of the silly cost of the US system doesn’t hold water. The pharmaceutical companies are just greedy, and politicians are in their pockets.
I know people in the industry that have said as much