Pharmaceutical escalation

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There is no question drug prices are sky ward showing no limits.

Deregulation, supracompetitive pricing, product sabatage, bribing, fraud.
  1. Pharmatech companies spend money on bribing both doctors and politicians.  Though bribes to doctors are often not money but free gifts. 
  2. They set pricing as high as they think they can get away with before someone with authority comes after them, thus one reason why they bribe politictions.
  3. They lobby politictions to deregulate.
  4. They don't fully disclose all details of a drug to anyone this leaves even doctors and FDA in the dark, not just patients.
  5. They pay competitors to delay release of product to have a time frame of no competition.
Profit margins are so high that they pull in the most per sale of any business.  Those that claim the high cost is to cover R&D cost is blowing smoke at you as every R&D lab receives research grants yearly to cover the cost.

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