Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs
by josu on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:18AM
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Medicine is the textbook example of perfectly inelastic demand.
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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs
by bootsmann on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:23AM
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Its not at all, customers can still use substitute products (which is what generics are in the first place).
If demand was perfectly inelastic we would not be having the problem of generics manufacturers having to close down because their margins are too thin.