As professionals in the pharma industry, we often face questions regarding the high price of medicines and the greed of the companies producing them. Some items are easy to put a price on. Most of the products we use on a daily basis have a price determined by the manufacturing cost plus a profit markup. When you talk about a drug that took 14 years and billions of dollars to produce, the question of price becomes a bit more difficult. That conversation is complicated further when the product in question can ease human pain and suffering, or perhaps even prolong a life.
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