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IronLionZion

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5. Crooked companies buy patents to drugs others developed

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:32 PM

Dec 2023

and then become the sole monopoly supplier so they can jack up prices. It adds no value to our healthcare system, just sky high prices. Martin Shkreli does that with insulin. Joe Manchin's daughter Heather Bresch was able to retire early as a fabulously wealthy woman from doing that to EpiPens.

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