If you ever want to get mad about capitalism, remind yourself that most drugs that cost >$10,000 a month to take are trivially inexpensive to manufacture and can usually still be massively profitable at a fraction of the cost
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Now do the ones that fail.
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This includes the ones that fail - it's the ENTIRE R&D spend! So you can pay all the costs of every drug that is approved and failed with just the top 20 earners (the next few hundred are pure profit for these companies)
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We also know some of that "R&D" really is marketing expense.
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Yes but corporates and governments do not get want to be involved in small rev projects. Therefore huge margins keep these therapies in the market.
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Oh no that's too complicated. We'd rather have another go at
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