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Why A Pill That's 4 Cents In Tanzania Costs Up To $400 In The U.S.
The medication fights hookworm. It's one of several drugs for "neglected tropical diseases" that are priced differently in the United States than they are in the developing world.
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Before reading the article, I thought “greed, of course”. Guess what? It’s greed, of course.
After reading this I feel like there must be a market for some eccentric billionaire that wants to produce generic pills for pennies and sell them for about a quarter just to piss off big pharma. Of course they would probably then come back and demand that the generics be stopped.