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kleinbl00  ·  4374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How a Drug Went From $50 to $28,000 a Vial

TL;DR Profiteering.

There's a book by E. Fuller Torrey about managing schizophrenia. In it, he makes the observation that as of 2006, it is cheaper to buy a 1st class ticket from New York to Spain, stay at a 5 star in Madrid for a week and buy a year's worth of meds there than it is to buy your antipsychotics on the US market.