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And they used taxpayer dollars to develop it.

It costs ₹35-50 (less than a dollar) per capsule to buy a Molnupiravir pill in India. The entire box costs about ₹2,000 (Cipla, 40 pills).

Paxlovid is also available, it seems, which is basically a combined treatment of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. Nirmacom Combipack is being sold by Hetero Healthcares at ₹980.

Glad we can finally get back to hating big pharma. They are a bunch of greedy opportunists, and always were.

My life saving benlysta is something like $3k/mo before insurance, $1k/mo after, but luckily I get it basically free... For now.

Drug pricing is crazy. They want to recoup their r&d, but almost nobody even pays the full cost. Why not just charge something reasonable...

“Pricing for Paxlovid is based on the value it provides to ~~patients, providers and health care systems~~ DEEZNUTS," the drugmaker said.

Honestly this is a really good thing. Imagine how much money this will bring into the economy. You can choose to die from covid, or take out a predatory healthcare loan for this drug. Most people will choose to go into massive debt just to stay alive, and the economy could really use that cash injection right now to prevent a recession from happening. Just think of how much shareholder value locking a critically lifesaving drug behind such a high price tag will create.

How else are they gonna make money? The billions in government subsidies taken from taxpayers?

Fuck that!

And you need to buy 2 if you don’t want to rebound!

figured this would happen. People should have focused on how to treat covid from the start.