• blazera@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    article doesnt present any pressure they are facing. also

    Drug production costs are often shrouded in secrecy with little clarity on how they relate to prices, if at all.

    Prices are never about cost, its what people are willing to pay. Which gets brutally exploited by pharmaceutical industry.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      To be fair, drug development is pretty expensive. A lot of the budgets for it are public-because it happens at public institutions.