A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests

Re:A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests by pixl97 on Sunday September 20, 2015 @04:31PM (#10248952)

>What if the company stops making the drug, then? The price is high because no other companies are willing to make it for lower, after all.

Nope, don't force the company to make it. Force the company to give the formulation to another company that will. This article states the reason it is able to be priced so high, at least for a time, is that other companies will have to reverse engineer it and get a line running. Take out the time of getting the product formulated right and the original holder has to think about the ramifications of any shenanigans they will attempt to pull.

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Re:A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests by ikeboy on Sunday September 20, 2015 @05:01PM (#10249105)

The composition is public, and needs to be disclosed when patented. In order to get FDA approval for a generic drug, you need to show that it performs as well as the actual drug (not really, but that's a different issue [0]). In order to do that, you need to have samples of the actual drug.

[0] http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a...

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