• set_secret@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    one of the most wealthy countries need to make their own pharmaceuticals ‘due to cost’. seems reasonable.

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      8 months ago

      The country isn’t wealthy, but some individuals are and fantastically so. They won’t manufacture this stuff at home because it’d mean pharma execs couldn’t afford as many yachts

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      8 months ago

      And still charge insanely high prices. A side note: a local used to work at a now-closed child medicine manufacturing facility. His behavior became so volatile, everyone blamed it on that, but also he was in late adolescence under extreme conditions of despair.