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They’ve done so even though the American public subsidized research and development costs for every drug approved for sale in the United States between 2010 and 2019.
✏️ This is nuts. Big pharma manipulated the economy so thoroughly, that taxpayers subsidize the r&d costs but then pay hiked up prices for the drugs that are subsequently sold.
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Meanwhile, they also get crazy tax cuts which translates to an increase in net income, first and foremost as profit for the stakeholders and not increased benefit for the people.
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