Not if the same item is available elsewhere for next to nothing.
“Not if the same item is available elsewhere for next to nothing.”
The cost is “next to nothing” because it is nothing.
“In 2013, GlaxoSmithKline donated 763 million albendazole tablets for the treatment and prevention of parasitic infections in developing countries, bringing the total to over 4 billion tablets donated since 1998.[24]”
The pills are donated to third world countries.
In other countries costs are low because they are socialist.
The pills could be very low price here if there were a market for them, like aspirin or ibuprofrin, but the disease is very rare and there is not a market.