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IcyPeas

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11. NPR had a story on this a while ago re: MS Drugs
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 10:33 PM
Jun 2015

Look at this quote - it's outrageous:

Drug companies are acting much like a cartel such as OPEC, says Stephen Schondelmeyer, a pharmaceutical economist at the University of Minnesota. He says the companies must figure "if we all keep moving [our prices] up and nobody moves down, we can get away with raising the price, because if a person has multiple sclerosis, what other choice do they have?"


http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/25/408021704/multiple-sclerosis-patients-stressed-out-by-soaring-drug-costs

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