Drugs are used to save people, but they are still commodities in essence. The cost of developing a drug for rare diseases is very high. The research and development cycle of drugs is as long as 10 years, and the research and development expenses are calculated at 10 billion dollars. In addition, pharmaceutical companies have to risk that all the costs of drug research and development will be wasted.
Pharmaceutical factory is a profit-making enterprise, not a charity. The patent protection time of a drug is 20 years, which means that after 20 years, the whole world can imitate the drug you developed with high investment. Pharmaceutical companies need to use this drug to recover their capital and make profits within 20 years, but this disease will not happen to everyone, and there will be 654.38+10,000 people infected worldwide. This multi-billion dollar investment is to recover funds from these 654.38 million+patients.
Many people think that selling drugs at such a high price is not to tell patients to die, but this is reality and reasonable. Drugs for rare diseases are the choices that pharmaceutical companies give patients to live. Without this medicine, the patient's disease is terminal. While we accuse the medicine of being expensive, we should also understand that if the pharmaceutical factory can't make a profit, it can't invest in the research and development of the next rare disease. Moreover, after 20 years of patent protection, this medicine will be copied into cabbage price, and after at least 20 years, patients can't afford it. . . .
Unfortunately, there is only one disease in the world, and that is poverty. . . .