More Air Into the Health Care Bubble: the $30,000 a Month Cancer...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 12/09/2009 - 15:56

Over four years ago, we posted about the stratospheric prices of new drugs that seemed disproportionate to manufacturing and development costs on one hand, and the value of the drugs for patients on the other.  For example, back then we noted that thalidomide, a very old drug that notoriously was found to cause birth defects when it was given to preganant women, but that then showed promise as an anti-cancer drug, was being marketed in the US for $29 per...

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