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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by sandworm101 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:05PM (#11657139)
Considering that Americans consume 75% of the world's prescription drugs, and I think it safe to assume an equivalent amount of non-prescription drugs, I don't think any of this makes much difference. The US is a very strange and unique drug market.

Citation: "5 percent of the United States is the world's population and consumes 75 percent of the the world's prescription drugs."

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/i...

(And by "Americans" I and the gov included all those people in the US market who are not "US citizens". Ie me.)

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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by adrianN on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:10AM (#11658074)
That statistic seems a little misleading to me, because very large parts of the world don't consume any prescription drugs at all, because they're too poor to go to the doctor.
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