• jwt
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      7 months ago

      My guess is it has something to do with the already exorbitant healthcare costs Americans are making (causing the asked price not to be an outlier) in combination with the obesity epidemic going on in the country.

      Gotta love the invisible hand of the free market.

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        7 months ago

        It’s much more to do with the fact that all of those other countries allow the state to negotiate drug prices.

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          7 months ago

          That might also help a tad.

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    With something like 2/3 of American military-age men being too overweight or obese to serve, these drugs would likely be considered strategically essential in any [hopefully] theoretical throwdown.