• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    “well, you see, it’s a free market. They can always just choose to pay $1,000,000 for this inhaler, nothing’s stopping them” /s

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      9 days ago

      “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

      • Anatole France
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        9 days ago

        Yes, you’re certainly free to do so, you’ll only need to wait until our parent runs out (whoops, we made a meaningless adjustment to the formula and got the patent extended), spend huge buckets of money getting your production chain up to the spec of the regulatory agency that we captured, get contracts with the pharmacy benefit managers (whoops, we gave them totally cool and legal kickbacks), and then when you start making money, we’ll just drop our price until we bankrupt you, buy up the scraps, and make sure nobody else can recover anything from the ashes.