@sarahkliff isn't it a generic? What's stopping Teva from making it too, thereby driving down the price again?
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@sarahkliff@Roysploitation correct. Also, because they have shareholders and don't want bad press.
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@sarahkliff for the last goddamn time, pyrimethamine is a broad spectrum drug, a mainstay of malaria Tx, not comparable at all to Solvadi -
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...has been IP scavenging & rent-seeking. He researches and produces nothing.
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@dmkoffler Petrova, who@sarahkliff cites for the 20% R&D figure, is also a *marketing* professor who appears to have got that # from PhRMA. -
@jakebackpack@sarahkliff even stipulating to PhRMA's marketing to the marketing prof, Turing isn't actually a pharm co
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@sarahkliff@ezraklein poster child for why health care should be government run.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff the economics of a $750 pill!https://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/the-economics-of-a-750-pill/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff i love that one of the scumbag co-founder of this company@edwin_urrutia_ RT this. It's about profit amiright#greed#patheticThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff@ezraklein Let's hear it - USA, USA, USA, USA, USAUSAUSAUSA. Thank you Congress. When will you fire these money-grubbers?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff@littlechicken Capitalism is unethical. The proof is in America.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff hope people read the full article. This is a systemic problem created by pharma $ and political corruption. Well done!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff same thing JUST happened in Canada, a different drug (for tuberculosis) jumped from $15 per pill to $360http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tb-drug-price-cycloserine-1.3237868 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff This conflict was ducked during the ACA debates back in '09-'10 to avoid the wrath of the pharmaceutical industry. So it lives.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff great article. The price increase will attract generic competition, but it will take 3-5 yrs for generics to gain approval.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff@ezraklein can eminent domain laws be applied to drug patents?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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