The "widely used, cheap and safe" drug is not nearly as profitable as the prescription psoriasis or ED pill that you can hawk direct to consumers on TV for a hundred bucks a pill.
So the drug companies stop making them.
Yeah the article alludes to it. The “widely used, cheap and safe” drug is not nearly as profitable as the prescription psoriasis or ED pill that you can hawk direct to consumers on TV for a hundred bucks a pill.
So the drug companies stop making them.
The only solution is for the government to go into the drug production business. < / sarcasm >
If the drug could be made at a profit, it would be.
The problem is that drugs have become so highly regulated that it is impossible to make many of them at a profit. It is not the cost of manufacturing the drugs that is the problem, it is the cost of meeting the government regulations, which are voluminous, detailed, and with severe penalties for minor lapses.
The drugs are clearly in demand. You say they are cheap.
So, why don’t you just start up a company, make them, and make a good profit?
The "widely used, cheap and safe" drug is not nearly as profitable as the prescription psoriasis or ED pill that you can hawk direct to consumers on TV for a hundred bucks a pill.
So the drug companies stop making them.