I mean, with stuff like insulin, or cancer treatment, I’m totally against price gouging, but OZEMPIC? That’s a voluntary weight loss supplement. As far as I’m concerned, they can charge whatever the hell they please. There’s always diet / exercise for free. I say this as someone whose weight has fluctuated quite a bit in my life. Any time I let myself go, I knew exactly what I had to do to fix it. I’m currently bouncing back from a period like that and back to working out 4 or 5 times a week and eating less. Shocker, but I’ve lost weight and feel better. Ozempic is right there with liposuction. U can do it if you want to be lazy, but you gotta pay. I’m ok with that.
Yeah, well, their R&D budget for this medicine cost something crazy like $3.5 trillion dollars, so it makes sense that they have to charge 200x the cost to make it.
I am willing to bet they took government money to fund this. So I don’t really accept the argument that they need to price it that much to make profits. How much more profits is the only thin remaining to determine and I don’t have a lot of sympathy for sociopaths who claim they need so much.
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