Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - April 28th, 2023
Bloomberg Businessweek
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The Cost of Drugs
In the US, it's a free market. Drug companies can price their drugs at whatever price they want. And these, when they came on the market as diabetes drugs, they were priced fairly high. Some of the pricing, there's one that will go V-drug, which is a higher dose version of Zempic that no one nor does sell sort of obesity. They price that at even higher price than a Zempic. It's exact, different doses of the exact same chemical compound, but one is a higher price. The obesity one is ahigher price. But why don't you come out with really cheaper versions of these drugs and lots of people will take them and
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