HOLEY FUCK. The last lines in the article:
> Last July, the cost of my monthly Revlimid prescription increased by 7% to $19,660.
> At the beginning of this year, my insurer switched me to generic Revlimid. I didn’t fight it, thinking it would result in a dramatic decrease in what ProPublica’s health plan pays for the drug.
>It turns out it is not much of a savings: The generic costs $17,349 a month.
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: for a fucking generic thalidomide variant, its 'ONLY' $578.3 per fucking pill, per day?!
This pill should be 1$/day . And that would still be 300% markup (of manuf price of $.25/pill)
Aside: I remember in school the 'facts' of how socialism and communism killed X millions. How many millions per year are killed by capitalist greed like this?
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2025-05-08 16:10:21 UTC
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