How drug companies are making crucial, common drugs up to 100 times more expensive.
1st April 2011
The problem, of course, is not ‘the drug companies’, but rather the FDA; the drug companies are merely letting the government do the heavy lifting for them.
Since Slate is a Voice of the Crust, however, it can’t pin the blame on Big Government where it belongs — no, it has to be the fault of Evil Corporate Greed.
April 1st, 2011 at 08:50
Notice that it only takes a tiny number of deaths linked to a drug in order for the FDA to ban it, regardless of the benefits the same drug might have for millions of other patients. We are also not supposed to notice that the drug companies are trying to recoup the costs incurred in the approval process for the approved drug, plus the costs incurred in the approval process for all the failed drugs. Nope, nothing to see here but corporate greed, time for some “righteous anger” and more government intervention …