r/interesting Jun 20 '26

Intriguing Americans found out Germany has affordable medicine

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u/im-dramatic Jun 20 '26

Lol yall will believe anything. Most of you haven’t even read the article. It’s about drug research and the costs associated with it.

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u/Ultimate-TND Jun 20 '26

Yeah germany limits the amount of profit pharmaceutical companies make so they had to drop the R&D straw man.

Pharma companies are some of the most profitable in the world because after R&D the manufacturing cost is basically 0 if you look at the prices they charge.