Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com)
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Attached: 2 images Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.
    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      117·
      3 years ago

      Oh stop. The government should be running the pharaceutical industry then, not private companies.

      Stop simping for evil corporations that don’t give a shit about you.

            • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              13·
              3 years ago

              Lol scratch a simp and a fascist bleeds. But we all knew who you really are and what you’re all about.

              You can go ahead and get the last word if you feel the overwhelming need to satisfy your anger by winning an argument against me on the internet. I’m sure all of those weeping pharma CEOs will praise their thanks for your service.

    • gordon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      317·
      3 years ago

      Oh no, whatever will we do if old dudes can’t have 6 different types of boner pills?

      • Same@lemmy.worldEnglish
        104·
        3 years ago

        Pharma companies spend a majority of their time trying to make new unique drugs, they just fail most of the time. The ones that succeed tend to be ones that are similar to ones that succeeded in the last, which is why you get multiple drugs in the same class, but it’s not all they do. For example, we’ve essentially cured some types of cystic fibrosis, and there’s an effective vaccine for malaria now - all developed in the last 10 years.

        I don’t want to pretend that the big pharma companies aren’t evil, but they do have incentives that align with improving human health.