AMERICA LOL

This pill now costs 4$ in India BTW

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In a real capitalist society you could just buy the pill from india.

This is earth shattering to me

>HCV is spread primarily by blood-to-blood contact associated with intravenous drug use, poorly sterilized medical equipment, needlestick injuries in healthcare, and transfusions.
Wow, so literally all you have to do to avoid getting this is to not be a fucking retarded junkie.

Doesn't India use a compulsory license system, where they just create generic versions of drugs

If everywhere in the world paid 4$, the drug and other future drugs would not exist. Someone has to fund the R&D

too bad indians make a dollar a year

>this fucking statistic
good luck trying to BUY IT in india from the amerifats, retard

It's only free trade when it benefits people and entities that can afford to lobby.

someone have to pay for the research and development of new drugs...

(or old drugs with new colours and fancy names, re-introduced to the market with a flashy new name)

Worst case off to India and get back with the treatment

>someone have to pay for the research and development of new drugs...
Indeed, and that someone is the taxpayer. If Trump ends the pharmaceutical scam, he'll be the greatest president since Teddy.

proper thinking

Actually, this is what happens when americans have to subsidize indians.
They're literally being charged more so that third world countries can pay less.

>'Murica doesn't invest that much on a meth-related disease

>still more people in the US can afford the drug

Really amazing stuff.

So America pays out the ass so the rest of the world doesn't have to.

Just like with the military

POO

I work for a Mexican pharmaceutical company (not a very large one, family owned). We manufacture a couple of drugs under license, but mostly generics. I post with a throwaway account instead of my regular account because I'm personally identifiable in my other account and I don't want to accidentally break NDAs or something.

Most people in the US don't believe me, but we sell some of our products to one of the Top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the US (let's call it BigPharmaX). Said company sells them under their own brand name in the US.

We sell each piece to BigPharmaX at about $7 Mexican Pesos, which is currently about $0.45 USD. Still very profitable for us. We even print their branded packaging locally.

I don't know much about the supply chain in the US and their markups, but you can find our product, sold by the BigPharmaX company brand label with a price of about $40 USD in most major american drugstores. In the back, of course, it says "Made in Mexico".

The same exact product you will find, under a different brand name, made by the same factory, in any major mexican pharmacy for not more than $40 Mexican Pesos (about $ 2.5 USD).

You guys are getting fucked in the ass with those prices

Yeah and Indians are terrible at adhering do documented and regulated processes. My father had experience dealing with you curry niggers and your constant desire to undermine regulations because they are tiresome to the profit.

Supply and demand.

poor people with hep c deserve their rotting livers though

serious question, what happens when a drug sold in India kills a few people, and you get a shit ton of lawsuits?? does that even happen?? here in the U.S this can cost a drug company billions.

Why not just fly to India and get your pills there? Even with airfare its still a bargain.

You mean earth shartering?

My dad is a general doc/cardiologist. Have never seen that happen. But obviously you can goto a court and there is usually a stay order on selling of drugs and it can take decades for the companies to sell again so they make sure that it doesn't happen

>You guys are getting fucked in the ass

Now tell us something we haven't known since about 1980.

Most medicine is ridiculously cheap and it's one reason healthcare costs are rising. Bush put in the no negotiation clause and the AMA enforces some bad treatments.

America subsidizes the pills for India

if we paid less, Indians would have to pay more

>we

>we

I'd happily pay a hundred thousand dollars for medicine if that means I don't have to wipe my ass with my hands

So fly to India to get the pill.

>I work for a Mexican pharmaceutical company

Durka durka. Inja so goodest at eberything. We are not arrogant fucks. We raid the US, pretend unsuccessful be smart, bitch about racism, and think US sucks eve. Though gang rape happens in public all the time in inja durka durka.

I fucking hate most injuns (and im sure there's some good ones). Impatient, rude, socially retarded fucks. The English should have stayed and kept them down.

Cholos and maras are from el salvador and Nicaragua not México

>buying pills from India which have a high risk of being contaminated by poo

No thx m8

Hey guys let's steal IPs and then make them for very cheap.

>Yeah and Indians are terrible at adhering do documented and regulated processes.
Don't worry, Trump & friends will do away with all those stifling FDA/EPA regulations for America too.

Yes.
And it's why no business in India tries to create anything.

All joking aside I knew a surgeon who got this from a stick during an operation once. I mean I guess if you spend 30 years operating on however many thousands of people you can just get unlucky.

>But yea mostly degenerates

Because India doesn't respect any patents on pharmaceuticals.

Granted pharma companies are greedy shits, but when you have entire countries essentially pirate their product as a matter of national policy, shit doesn't get cheaper for us. Synthesis methods become more guarded and secretive, and legit release of formulas for generic market takes longer and longer. This is not just for super-expensive meds, but on a whole for the entire pharma market. Slows research too since a lot of drug discovery is based on derivatives of existing methods. If that resource is gone and locked away behind corporate secrecy, discovery of new drugs will slow to a crawl.

> be indian junky
> get treatment for $4 a day
> get giardia
> sell kidney to pay for giardia treatment
> post on Sup Forums "HAHAHA stupid AmericanS! Pooper Power by 2020!!!!"

Wrong. The company in this case has a patent for it in India but have just licensed it off to smaller companies who compete and bring the price down.

Kek

>HAHA IT'S OKAY IF I GET SICK FROM EATING LITERAL SHIT BECAUSE IF I GET SICK MEDICINE IS CHEAP

>The company in this case has a patent for it
They didn't create the vaccine, they didn't R&D it.

Very impressive, now show us the vital medicine you invented by yourself and then gave away to the poor.

>gave away to the poor

are you trying to be socialist here?

Please, Trump sucks the corporate cock just like every other politician.

underrated. you're ok this time, leaf.

They did. It's the same company selling the drug in the US for that cost.

>i-i-it's ok if I die if I can't afford this medicine w-w-w-we wuz indevtatorz an shieeet