Lilly to charge $11,430 a month for cancer drug

Are you cretins unironically bitching about the price of brand new experimental drugs?

Are you people bitching so much aware that a microscopically small percentage of drugs pharmaceutical companies initially spend money on ever sees the light of day as a commercial product?

Are you aware that the development process for ALL of those drugs costs millions and millions of dollars?

Are you aware that if the companies aren't able to reclaim that money by charging your insurance 10 gorillion dollars for the first few years before the exclusive rights expire and someone else reverse engineers the product as a generic, and that if they are not able to reclaim that money and turn a profit, the entire drug development process collapses?

Are you aware of the ramifications of that?

For as much as people bitch and moan about "big pharma" and how "doctors just do pills and shots and surgeries," it makes me really curious precisely what in the fuck they would rather we do instead. Physicians do not prevent you from trying to be a healthy person on your own time, that is not our job, that is your job, however you are free to do it as you see fit and reap the benefits thereof.

Most of you will do some stupid fad diet bullshit or waste effort on yoga and veganism or worshiping energy crystals or "colon cleanses" or some other total absolute bullshit, then turn around and blame us medical people when new age voodoo fails to make you live to 1,000 as if it was somehow our fault.

The reality is that medical science has done more for humanity than almost any of you goons on Reddit or Facebook seem to understand.

Sometimes I genuinely wish that the whole biotech industry just collapsed and all we had left were witch doctors working for chickenfeed, misdiagnosing your cancer as "chakra misalignment" and prescribing treatments of wheatgrass enemas.

Sometimes, a little tiny part of me actually wants to see people dying of easily treatable infection, dying in childbirth from silly stuff we can solve for 10 bucks, little kids getting congenital syphilis and getting crippled from polio and such.

A little part of me wants to see widespread horror so you goons would learn just how wrong you are.

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