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I would love that, as long as the cost includes that R&D and those engineers, the actual bits might be immaterial but the engineer salaries are part of the cost of the goods.

The problem is that we're being told that the cost of insulin is $270 per vial, or that Daraprim used to estimate its cost per dose at 90% of $13.50 and then Shkreli decided to raise it to $750.



The Shkreli case has nothing to do with the rest. He was playing the insurance companies and there isn't a single person that went without the medicine due to the cost. Almost nobody takes this medicine.

In fact, it still costs $750 today.




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