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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 22:10:48 2019 No.11202593 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11202863 >>11202962

Are any medical drugs expensive to produce (not counting the R&D to get the formula)? Like, they need some rare materials or something? Or are they all cheap to make?

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2019 23:56:10 No.11202837 Report

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Some medical treatments require proteins extracted from human blood plasma, which requires not only payments to those making it, but also a fair amount of semi-skilled labor to conduct the process.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 00:02:52 No.11202863 Report

Quoted By: >>11202873 >>11202876 >>11203672

>>11202593
rarely, but research costs are massive

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 00:06:59 No.11202873 Report

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>>11202863

As is paying off politicians and executive bonuses.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 00:08:07 No.11202876 Report

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>>11202863

And don't forget the cost of suing anyone who publishes results that you don't like.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 00:14:04 No.11202892 Report

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some medicines need animal compounds, although it's more common to synthesize.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 00:37:48 No.11202962 Report

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>>11202593
Usually the cost to manufacture is very compared to the R&D cost, but it can still be expensive to produce drugs due to high purity specs and the aseptic nature of pharma.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2019 05:07:47 No.11203672 Report

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>>11202863
>each of the 210 medicines approved for market by the FDA
>between 2010 and 2016 came out of research supported by the NIH
https://other98.com/taxpayers-fund-pharma-research-development/

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