• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If we capped the price they could sell it for, they’d increase production to maintain profit

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    5 months ago

    With something like 2/3 of American military-age men being too overweight or obese to serve, these drugs would likely be considered strategically essential in any [hopefully] theoretical throwdown.

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      5 months ago

      My guess is it has something to do with the already exorbitant healthcare costs Americans are making (causing the asked price not to be an outlier) in combination with the obesity epidemic going on in the country.

      Gotta love the invisible hand of the free market.