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Originally Posted by kvmj  Big Pharma is happy to sell their products to other countries at prices far below what we here in the US get to pay.
I won't feel sorry for big Pharma if they cannot continue to rake in the obscene profits. |
No sympathy from me either.
Over a year ago my SIL was diagnosed with leukemia, the chronic kind. Novartis (sp?) makes the drug for it. $3000 a month was a drugstore quote to my brother in Tennessee. Order from Canada, something like $1200 a month. In India it sells for a fraction of the Canadian price. My brother, at that time was making somewhere in the neighborhood of $60,000 to $70,000, I think. The cost would have been $36,000 a year from Canada, if he had been forced to pay for it himself. That would have left him somewhere around $5000 to $10,000 to live on for the year. Good trick. I believe if you live in India you pay almost nothing for this drug. Why such a discrepancy?
The other problem with them is they do not look for cures. If someone finds a cure for cancer it will probably be buried. You don't make money if people are cured. You make money by selling them drugs for the rest of their life. "Cure" is not in their vocabulary, at least not with the same meaning as I give it.