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Pharma Lobby Furious Over Wildly Popular Effort to Curb Drug Prices
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Big Pharma: we need to charge extortion rates to pay for R&D
Public: oh, cool, so you are using that money to pay the research, and not taking half of it in management bonus?
Big Pharma: ...
Public: You are not pocketing half of it right, right?
Big Pharma: COMMUNISTS!!!! The CEO needs the 3rd yacht otherwise he'll refuse to sign on the research, do you want that?
Sounds like a CEO needs to stop ordering coffee and eating avocado toast.
Of course they’re not pocketing half of it. They’re pocketing the 75%